Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-Your editorial of the 17th ult. on the inefficiency of the German department, has not, it seems, produced the desired effect. Not only has no head to the department been appointed, but the methods of one instructor in particular have established no attempts at improvement. The instructor in question, day after day, ignores completely the presence of half the men in his sections; in fact, to make the matter worse, often calling upon the more fortunate students twice or more times in the course of a recitation. This is common talk among the men of the freshman...
...University in regard to the petition for voluntary prayer. Signed by an overwhelming majority of the undergraduates, endorsed by many of the prominent alumni of the college, and strongly approved by the leading journals of the country, we felt justly confident that this petition would produce the desired effect. But the authorities by whom Harvard is governed are not troubled by that vice of small minds-consistency. While making the most sweeping changes in their frantic haste to reach the state of "an ideal university," they do not hesitate to go to the other extreme, and retain the one relic...
...Lehigh Burr discusses the effect of faculty interference on athletics, remarking that, "Athletics seem to claim more of the time of faculties, at the present day, than more distinctively collegiate topics. The Harvard faculty gleefully writhes in accumulating evidence of the immoral tendencies of foot-ball, and prohibits its cultivation unless the student of delicate physique right gallantly arrayed in bib and tucker, kicks just five pounds avoirdupois, and stands out of sight of the rest of the team...
These plans are very attractive, and would effect a great improvement upon the present condition of things; but it would be a better plan to convert the old Gore Hall into a fireproof bookstack, and to build a new reading-room on the north side, and so attached that no reasonable objection could be taken to lighting the room. Such a reading-room ought to have seats for at least 250 persons, and should be provided with coat-rooms and dressing-rooms, that students who have no rooms in Cambridge might find themselves comfortably provided for at the reading-room...
...lived and respectable, like cricket, tennis, fencing, shooting at a mark, rowing, sailing, hunting, jumping, and racing on foot, horseback, or bicycle, involve any bodily collision between contestants. Boxing and wrestling, which do require such personal collision, are very apt to degenerate as foot-ball has done. An ill effect of some of the inter-collegiate contests is their tendency to restrict the number of men in college who practice the competitive sports. The keenness of the competition creates a high standard of excellence, and persons who know that they cannot reach that standard cease to play. The athletic sports...