Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yesterday Captain Herrick tried the effect of attaching strips to the back of the oar-blades, and this no doubt will have the desired result of counteracting excessive pressure on the blades. Other slight changes will of course be made during the year. The tank, however, is at present working almost as well as can be expected...
...contributed to the Monthly, but it is worthy of space in the magazine. It is a serious story of human life. The writer depicts with great sincerity the awful influence disappointments and Jesertion may exert upon human passion. The tale is told in a simple manner and the artistic effect is increased by a careful avoidance of all vulgarity...
...over the relation of athletics to scholarship among college students, some facts collected from the recent report of the committee on athletics to the faculty of Harvard may be of interest. The thorough investigation of the committee leaves no room for doubt that athletics have had a beneficial effect upon the scholarship of men here. From the first table in the report which shows the college rank of the university teams in 1885-86, it appears that the average percentage of the four college teams was 72. That of the crew was 69, the Mott Haven team 72, the nine...
...From year to year as this development has steadily progressed under the guidance of President Eliot, its moving spirit, it has been observed that those who were in a position to note the effect of the changes were unanimous, or nearly so, in the opinion that a great improvement was being wrought. No signs have appeared of any deterioration in the quality or quantity of work done...
...regards the great body of undergraduates the reforms have been received as they were offered; here as elsewhere responsibility has had its educating effect, and the student who formerly regarded it as his duty to take the full number of 'cuts' permitted without punishment, under the new regime loses the desire to absent himself...