Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...This was an exhibition of very fine tennis. Shaw drove the ball hard and accurately first on one side-line and then on the other. He won the first two sets handily. In the third, Lee braced, playing his backhanded shots with good effect, and took the set. At the beginning of the fourth set, both players struggled hard for the lead. The first game was deuce and vantage at least a dozen times. The rest of the set was a long, close struggle, but Shaw won by pretty placing...
...arrival in New London found plenty of them for sale by outside parties at prices greatly in excess of the regulation rate. Several plans have been suggested by the managers of the railroad and navy; but the one most feasible and most likely to be adopted is to the effect that the size of the train shall be unlimited and that as many seats shall be sold at the regular price of one dollar as there are purchasers. The scheme will bar out speculators and be a great accommodation to those who expect to be present...
...Saturday's game which it would be well not to repeat was the neglect of the manager of the nine to telegraph the score immediately after the match. In consequence of this disregard of duty, rumors of all kinds floated around the college about the game, some to the effect that Harvard had won, and no authentic information was had until about nine o'clock the true score was brought out from Bostom. Such a state of uncertainty was a source of continual worry and anxiety, and no wonder men felt as though they had not been treated fairly...
...State on the back of this sheet any further facts or opinions, relating to the effect of athletics upon yourself and upon the college, which you think will be useful to the committee in forming their judgment...
...Board of Overseers. A number of bequests are announced, notably that by Mrs. Ellen Gurney of $75,000 and that by Dr. Asa Gray of the copyrights of his books. Mention is made of the long and useful service of Professor Lovering, whose resignation is to take effect September 1, 1888. Besides the reports the Bulletin contains additions to the Harvard necrology as published in the Quinquennial Catalogue, a descriptive catalogue of the new books received by the various libraries connected with the University, a catalogue of the Dante collection, and a calendar of the Sparks' manuscripts of the Revolution...