Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last year the management of the winter meetings did not take all the care possible to make the sparring fair. Gloves were neither furnished by the H. A. A., nor were those the contestants were allowed to provide weighed or examined. It makes a great difference in the effect of a blow whether it is struck with a five-ounce glove or one which weighs but two; and gloves should either be provided by the association, or those of the contestants should be weighed with as much care as is bestowed on the men themselves. In all amateur meetings this...
...continual practice of athletes for the games so impressed the correct form of the nude figure upon the artist that he was gradually induced to abandon conventional statues of the gods and fashion the more perfect ones of athletes. Then, too, the training of many men had the effect of furnishing a large number of good models. It is almost impossible for our modern artists to get even one very good model. The Palaestra became the dissecting room of the Greek artist; he did not need to study the human form...
...that before long The officers of the association have labored diligently in the part, to promote a greater interest in cricket at Harvard, than is at present apparent. We trust that this appeal, published entirely without the knowledge or request of any of the officers, may have its effect in loosening the purse-strings of those who have hitherto turned a deaf ear to such appeals...
...second only to commencement week itself. The celebration of Washington's birthday was ushered in Monday evening by the presentation of "Our Boys" by the Dramatic Association. The play was by far the best the association has yet put upon the stage. Every man acted his role with telling effect; especial mention should, however, be made of the hits made by Adams, '88. McAlpin, '88, and Gray...
...class of '89. They also purchased nearly 200 seats in the front row of the opera house. Mr. Wall accepted the latter, but declined the former proposition as he had been warned by Fire Marshal Kennedy that such an exhibition of the flag would have the same effect on the sophomore class as the showing of a red flag to an enraged bull, so he told them: "No flags, boys, if you please." The boys consented. One of the freshmen then obtained employment as a supe from Lizzie Evans company, which to-night played "Sea Sands." He had the flag...