Word: effective
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Banjo Club was heard in new pieces entirely, and rivaled the successes of former years. They show the effect of very careful training. A new feature was the accompaniment by the Banjo Club of songs by the Glee Club. The introduction of a whistler was also an innovation, but not sufficiently successful to warrant its continuance. A very pleasing feature of the program was the number by the Guitar and Mandolin Club. It must be confessed that there is more music in their playing than in that of the Banjo Club, and the Spanish airs that they play are much...
...understand that the base ball management are intending to organize an "amateur" league, and offer cups to the winning nine. We hope that this plan will be speedily carried into effect. A league to which no member of the university, second, or class nines is eligible, will be a great inducement to men who are interested in base ball but have not made a specialty of it. Almost every man in college not engaged in other branches of athletics can play the national game to some extent and enjoys it. By getting them out on the field in club...
Yesterday afternoon on Jarvis Field two elevens, composed mostly of new men, played a game of two twenty minute halves. All the training most of the men have done has been in the squad. For such raw men the playing was remarkably steady, and the good effect of bringing out new men in the winter was apparent. A large crowd assembled to see the game, which was very evenly contested. The score was 0 to 0. In the first half the ball was mostly in Cumnock's territory, in the second mostly in Bass'. Toward the end of the game...
Professor Taussig addressed the Reform Club of New York last Friday on the subject of the "Probable effect of schemes for increasing the silver coinage...
...very rough. The men fail to row the stroke well out and get forward promptly on the recover. They are also slow to get the oar into the water, and rush the slides. Some of them are so slow getting forward as to give the effect of a bad hang. The names of the men who rowed yesterday are as follows: Longworth stroke, Tallant 7, Finlay 6, Blanchard 5, Randol 4, Hale and Bishop 2, Parker bow. Fitzhugh who usually rows 4 and Shaw who is generally at 2, were absent...