Word: effective
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...past week has practically determined the men whose work entitles them to continue as candidates for the nine. In consequence of this, Capt. Wiggin has decided to reduce the number of players to about twenty men, exclusive of the batteries. This reduction of candidates will go into effect Monday and will be beneficial in that it will enable the most promising men to profit by more individual coaching. The impossiblity of devising a rule, which will be sufficiently comprehensive to decide concerning the eligibility of all candidates for the athletic teams, is shown by the fact that the rules, adopted...
Carpaccio, a less distinguished contemporary of Bellini, but one who has been praised highly by Ruskin, was not exactly a religious or devotional painter, but he leads us rather to the historic, the legendary and the chivalric. His pictures are the first attempt to get the out-of-door effect in nature. In all the Italian art of the fifteenth century there is no affectation, but sincerity, simplicity and purity...
There has been a rumor, credited by many persons outside the University and even by students themselves, to the effect that last year a hundred and fifty freshmen were dropped. The annoyance and positive harm wrought by such a rumor is great. It gives an altogether erroneous estimate to students of the frequency with which men are dropped, and it makes the college appear, to those not connected with it, either degenerate in the character of its students or inefficient in the watchfulness of its officials. Indeed, the father of one of the dropped men said to Dean Briggs that...
...directors of the club in a recent meeting made a very important amendment to the constitution to go into effect at once. According to this new rule the membership of those who get tickets this spring will be extended to the close of the rowing season next autumn. The term of membership before was during the college year, so that tickets issued in the spring were only good until Commencement. Hereafter the men who do not join till spring will get as much rowing for their five dollars as those who join in the autumn. The new rule will also...
...convention of delegates from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia and University of Pennsylvania will meet in New York on April 4 and 5, to effect a a permanent organization. Invitations will then be sent out to all the college debating societies in the country asking them to join the union...