Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long been said that if foot-ball were to be abolished there was ready at hand a sport to take its place almost its equal in beneficial effect and in the popularity which it enjoyed. The game of lacrosse has for some time occupied with us an intermediate place between foot-ball and base-ball. Now that foot-ball has been, at least for a time, laid by, lacrosse can well come to the front and take its place. Some interest has indeed been manifested in the sport, but the disappearance of the old familiar rush of foot-ball...
There is an old saw to the effect that "time and tide wait for no man." Years of experience have convinced nearly all the denizens of this world that the saying, like many others of a kindred nature, contains a very large proportion of truth. In fact this truth has stood the test of so many seasons that it has ceased to be a subject of more than passing thought to anyone. Now, when a man; in the face and eyes of the world, or at least so much of the world as is contained within the walls of Memorial...
...with every student in the course of his four years of residence at Cambridge is the occasional visit of the man who wishes a little pecuniary aid to enable him to stem the current of his misfortunes. The placards displayed in the hallways of every dormitory are of no effect in repelling invasions of this kind, and it is not until a student gets well into his junior year that he acquires the art of speedily ridding his room of such unwelcome guests. The man who wishes you to add your name to his list of subscribers...
...seem disposed to do, the long-established methods of our American Colleges for foreign university methods - as, for example, to make all college studies elective - does not presuppose and require an extent and degree of previous training not yet possible to be attained in our preparatory schools; whether its effect with a large class of students would not be, in fact already is, to give to their education a degree of extension quite out of proportion to its intention - an effect was very reverse of what the method is claimed to produce; and whether the expenditures on the part...
...feel that he should have entered the other. Therefore he has only a half interest in his work, and in a short time this half interest dwindles to no interest at all. In addition to a talk on choosing a profession, a few words could be added, with good effect; as to what were the best special schools in the country; how they were managed; and what a man could expect to get from them. If President Eliot can spare the time for such a lecture to the senior class he may be sure that every word will be appreciated...