Word: effective
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This is the first time the crew has rowed together since last Thursday. The men, particularly Townsend, show the effect in loose rowing...
...real heartwood and veneer, between a poem made out of a true life, and a false life attempted to be made into a poem. I shall turn back today to a poem as sincere as that of Dante-in some senses as national as his, but which fails of effect because it is deficient in art; whose images are as vivid as Dante's, but differ in this that they are all presented on the plane of the actual and not the ideal, that the painting is Dutch and not Italian. The poem I speak of is Piers Ploughman...
...know precisely how strong this feeling is and how much it will effect the policy of the University; but, against it, we wish to point out that the plan suggested would not be to the benefit of the students. No private enterprise could be expected to furnish board of the same quality and price as could a dining-hall run upon Memorial Hall principles. An element of profit would necessarity enter which must make the quality of the food lower or its price higher. It seems to us that one of the prime needs of Harvard is to make...
...Bacon, and that Aristotle and his commentators were for many centuries the chief intellectual food of Christendom. At the time when our literature had its first great development, all the books which scholars read were Latin books, and it was inevitable that they should show in their language the effect of the medium through which all their thinking passed. You will find that Charles Lamb, whose reading was chiefly of the writers of the sixteenth century, has the most Latin style of any of our modern authors...
...could hardly write trochees or dactyls at all in English, certainly not so that one would recognize them as such without being told. Two-syllable feet are Pyrrhics and three-syllabled are Tribrachs. Feet in which one syllable is short and another long are unknown in English, and the effect produced by them in languages where they exist is, whether