Word: effective
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...Further restriction is desirable. (a) Statistics show great increase in the least desirable classes of immigrants in recent years. N. Am. Rev. 152, pp. 28-32. (b) The effect prduced on U. S. by these undesirable classes is socially bad. (1) Their low standard of living makes it impossible for native workmen to compete without lowering their own standard. R. M. Smith, pp. 131-140. (2) They have introduced the pernicious sweating system. J. A. Rus, "How the Other Half Lives, " pp. 121-124. (3) An excessive proportion of our criminals and paupers is foreign born or of foreign parentage...
...playing of Andover against ninety-five Saturday, at Andover, was poor. Andover was weakened by the crippled condition of several players, and her general work was very erratic. Ninety-five was stronger in the line than Andover and used "mass plays" with good effect. Ninety-five made two touchdowns in the second half and Whittemore kicked one goal. Both teams fumbled considerably, ninety-five especially. Murchie, Teele and Grant did the best work in the line, while the rushing of Whittemore and Phelan was excellent...
Last winter the undergraduate rule was abopted by a mass meeting of Yale students, and Yale agreed to live up to this rule at least until the year 1894. Her object, it was represented, was to effect purity in athletics...
Professor Clapp's resignation will take effect at the close of the present term. He will make the fourth Yale instructor at the University of California, the others being Martin Kellogg '51, the president; Rev. Thomas Bacon '72, professor of European history; Louis DuPont Syle '79, professor of English, and W. W. Heffelfinger '89, instructor in physical culture...
...Cambridge Board of Aldermen are planning to remove the line of elms which extends from Quincy street to Harvard Square on the ground that "public necessity and convenience" demand that Harvard street shall be widened. Notices to this effect are posted on the trees in question and at 8.30 this evening a public hearing to receive any objections to the scheme will be held in City Hall...