Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...success of our lacrosse representatives last year is having a very good effect in bringing out new members to try for the team. The captain has almost as many candidates as he can conveniently accommodate, with the proper practice, in the cage this winter. Still there will always be room for one more, and, now that the lacrosse interests are on such a good footing, they should receive the attention of every possible candidate. The result next spring will depend almost entirely on the efficiency and steadiness of this winter's work in the gymnasium. In spite of the cramped...
...very considerable increase over previous ones. This is doubtless owing to the fact that the importance of regular daily exercise is coming to be realized more and more fully by the members of the university, due in no small degree to the exertions of Dr. Sargent. The effect of the gymnasium work is already beginning to be noticeable in an appearance of increased vigor and strength on the part of the students. Such signs of general improvement cannot but be hailed with satisfaction by all lovers of athletics...
...university - with such a name. Harvard men will find it hard not to believe that its establishment on the basis specified is a prodigious fling at the universal and shocking immorality of the Harvard student. It is to be hoped that this last move will have a sobering effect on this culprit. He is very wicked and doubtless needs this reminder...
...excellence on the part of other players can remedy the defect. The pitcher, with the assistance of the catcher, is depended on to do the work for the whole nine. Small scores are the natural result. A team knows that it cannot do much of anything itself against an effective delivery, and so devotes its energies to keeping the other side from doing anything. Success in a game depends, too often, not on particularly good play on the part of the winners, but on some particular error or succession of errors on the part of the losers. Base-ball...
...effect of the change from slave to free labor in the Southern States of the Union...