Word: effective
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...himself to Harvard. His father visits him at the critical time of a Harvard-Princeton game, discovers the deception, but shows the usual leniency. Much of the action of the story is very natural, but there are one or two slips of construction and word-improprieties which are the effect of the whole...
...your own way through college a right line, a straight line in the direct way from earth to heaven. Make your uttered profession whenever your silence would mean assent or indifference. Show your colors and stand by them but do not parade them out of season. Do nothing for effect; always act your Christian self. Shun religious cliques...
...feeling is prevalent that the team does not improve and that there is no hope of strengthening the weak points. As a result the attendance at the afternoon practice has fallen off, and the enthusiasm with which we began the year is waning. This only not has its effect upon the college at large but upon the candidates for the eleven, and unless it is checked at once the effect may be very serious. Now the fact is that the college is losing faith when there is every reason why it should feel encouraged. If men would stop...
...further ground and preferred to lose the ball on four downs rather than kick. Gray and Lake did some good work. and then Trafford punted to the centre of the field, Vail broke through and made 15 yards with the ball. Burgess then worked his backs to good effect through the right end of the rush-line and took the play well down the field towards Exeter's line. Lake made the touch down. No goal...
...Brown, in "Two Stormy Evenings," has evidently discarded the suggestions which an editorial in the first Advocate of the year made,- in effect that everyday life and familiar college incidents are most worthy of the attention of the writer for college papers. For in this particular story, there is plenty of the tragic and blood-curdling, plenty of scenes far removed from ordinary human life. The mingling of disappointed love, hate, thirst for revenge, compacts with Satan, and murder in one crucible is so seldom seen in college stories, that it would be hard to criticize this tale from...