Word: effective
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...willing to contribute readily to a private club which has other expenses besides the races. A university racing association would appeal more directly to subscribers and would be a more representative organization. The plan of the Bicycle club is an excellent one and ought to be carried into effect. The club, however wishes a thorough discussion among its members as to the advisability of the project, its details, and its probable connection with the club itself. One meeting called for this same purpose was postponed because of the small attendance, and no action will be taken tonight unless there...
...Yale crew, said last Friday that Yale would not consent to the proposition that the winner of the Harvard Yale race row the winner of a four cornered race between Cornell, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania and Bowdoin. Captain Herrick has already made a statement to the same effect for Harvard. Captain Allen also said he did not think that Yale wished to spare the time even to arrange a race with the Atlantas, concerning which so much has been published...
...though in one or two passages the English strikes the reader as clumsy or inelegant. It would have been improved by the omission of the roundabout introduction. "Du Guesclin's Mistake" is photographic in its accuracy of detall and stops abruptly as if incomplete. It is, however, pleasing in effect...
...stimulate candidates, and form an additional reason for doing good work on theses that are now perhaps to a certain extent perfunctory. At Yale the Hugh Chambertain prize for the best entrance paper in Greek is considered a great honor. This new prize at harvard will have a similar effect and will also have the advantage of causing the production of good pieces of work with less expenditure of time by the student than would the foundation of a prize to be competed for by essays written expressly...
...symphony soloists. She was most successful in the Mad Song from "Hamlet" which displayed the powers of her voice to best advantage. The music of this "Scene," however, is hardly up to the level of Shakespeare. The set of Persian Love Songs by Rubinstein would have had a better effect in a smaller auditorium. Weber's "Freischuetz" overture made a fitting end and climax to the evening's music. Here the orchestra was again effective and vigorous...