Word: effective
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...moment's notice by a rope fastened to the other end, and having the other half built in sections so that it can be taken to pieces, By means of the plane the jumper can throw his weight on the spring-board with much more effect than when he had to run along the floor...
...effect of these resolutions, of course, will be to force us into a dual league with Yale-if she happens to be willing to enter into one. But we have been given to understand that these resolutions are not final-which presumably means that if sufficient opposition is shown to them, they may be withdrawn. Last year the question of a dual league was proposed and unqualifiedly rejected. Has college opinion completely changed? The only thing to cause such a change was Princeton's action last fall. We expressed our dissatisfaction at this by withdrawing from the foot ball league...
...time has come for the college to bestir itself and settle this question-not in some hastily-called meeting, but with deliberation and thought. Do not let us drift into a dual league through mere inertia. It cannot but have a bad effect on the country at large. Statistics show that our prestige is waning; it is a serious moment for us, a time to throw off our indifference and meet the question squarely...
...Harvard Athletic committee has received from the Princeton Athletic committee a brief letter to the effect that the Princeton Graduate Advisory committee is investigating the matters contained in the recent statement made by Harvard...
...candidates for positions outside the battery will not begin training until after the midyears, and it cannot be ascertained until then how much the recommendation in question will have to do with keeping professional school men from trying for the team. It is probable that it will have little effect for the reason that there is at present so much doubt about the recommendation becoming a rule. According to its terms it is expressly provided that "other colleges should agree to its application in intercollegiate contests." Of course it is utterly impossible to predict now the action which the other...