Word: effective
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...considered his masterpiece. The theme of this great work is carried again and again into the minutest details and repeated by all the parts of the orchestra. The fabric is composed of the most intricate interweaving of part into part, yet all so skillfully that the effect of a perfect whole, a complete idea, is left with the hearer...
Yale made a proposition to the effect that a series of three games should be played as follows: The first on neutral grounds, the second at Cambridge, and the third at New Haven on Yale's Commencement...
...meeting of the trustees of Dartmouth College on Monday, President Bartlett presented his resignation, to take effect at the next commencement. He wishes to engage in certain special literary work which he has long meditated, and with which the cares and duties of the presidency are incompatible. At the time of his contemplated retirement he will have completed fifteen years in office...
...Ghost Story" is a short tale, concisely and clearly told. The plot is well sustained and the general effect is good...
...Duluth - should take an expelled Yale junior for the Republican candidate for Governor of the State, and a Colonel at that certainly reflects small credit on the people of that city. The comedy of errors which ensues is amusing but the extreme incongruousness of the plot rather vitiates the effect of the whole...