Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...soloists were Mme. Lilian Norton and Mr. Franz Kneisel. Mme. Norton suffered from a slight cold and the consequent huskiness at times marred the effect of her singing. Her voice is sweet and full, and her artistic perception generally good. The Mozart arias were very acceptably rendered. Mme. Norton failed to catch the spirit of the Lassen song according to our previously conceived idea of it, but that by Forster was sung with much more feeling, and was marred only by the huskiness before mentioned. In response to a recall, she gave Gurlitt's "Messenger," in which she was even...
There is a gain of 59 students in the academical department over the numbers of last year. The statement that was published to the effect that this department had sustained a loss is incorrect...
...extremely careful that they do not bring upon themselves public displeasure by such abuse. Societies gotten together for the sole purpose of the consumption of the juice of the grape are hurtful in the extreme; although they may give at the time some passing pleasure, yet their whole effect is necessarily abnormal and unproductive of any good results whatsoever. Let the society system be protected by all and saved from abuse, that it may remain in the public mind an emblem of one of the countless advantages that a collegiate life gives...
...care to write on any one of the given subjects, he may choose one of his own, provided he obtains written permission from Mr. Gates. The essays must have an argumentative character and a literary form, and neither of these components must be slighted in order to enhance the effect of the other. By argumentative character is not only meant that one of two sides of a question may be upheld as in debate, but that both sides may be discussed, and it the arguments, fairly stated, tend to leave the question in doubt, the forensic will not for that...
President Porter of Yale yesterday handed in his resignation to the Corporation of Yale College to take effect at the next commencement...