Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rumored that Professor C. J. White will conduct two courses in Astronomy next year, and that he has resigned the registrarship the resignation to take effect at the end of this year...
...that those two crews were very considerably impeded. Such a thing ought never to have been allowed. An interference of that sort might determine the order of the two last crews, which is not a matter of entire indifference. In this case it apparently did not have that effect, but such an interference must always have the effect of making it still harder for the crews who have lost and are doning their best to make a good finish. The referee's boat follows the race in order that justice may be done between the crews. There is no such...
...show the utter lack of facts by which such charges ought to be sustained. In the first place complaint is made because the sittings were given hurriedly. It will be remembered that by the contract all sittings were to be finished by the first of March. Notices to this effect frequently appeared in this paper long before the above date. Personal appeals were made for early sitting; appointments were made by members of the committee and by the photographer; and appointments for sittings were given both at the Cambridge studio and at the Boston studio. Besides these efforts to accommodate...
Last night, with all the rain, might be called by many an extremely appropriate night for temperance addresses; and those who thought that the rain would have no effect upon the size of the audience were in slight error, for the audience in Sanders last evening was quite large, and spoke well for the popularity of the speakers...
...change is a negative one, namely, the removal of the old Holmes homestead. The removal must have cost many a real pang to the lovers of all that is historical and to the admirers of the eminent poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes; but, notwithstanding, it had to be made. Architectural effect, modern improvement, in a word, progress, know no sentiment, and never ask what a thing has been but what it is. To the builders and designers of the Law School (Austin Hall) the Holmes house was an obstruction, an eye-sore; and, therefore, the Holmes house...