Word: effective
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Physical Geography of England and its effect on English History...
Professor Williams of Cornell has an article entitled, "The Effect of Scientific Study on Religious Beliefs" in the Christmas Century...
...same tendency predominates in the verse of the Harvard Advocate; prose articles are of a less serious character. Both papers, however, too often permit the overcrowding of large ideas to produce a strained effect, or obscure the clear sense of the thought. Sometimes the intense degenerates into the absurd, and the bold epithet into mere affection; this is of course, the chief danger in all college papers that aim at marked originality, and yet in these two papers is found some of the best, and nearly all of the strongest poetry written by college students...
...Tennis Association has taken a commendable step in drawing up the careful and elaborate constitution adopted last evening. We regret that owing to the length of the constitution and our limited amount of space we could publish only the chief articles. This constitution will have good effect in giving a better standing to the association and getting it upon a firmer business foundation. There are certain sections of the by-laws which are not especially new, perhaps, but it is worth while to call attention to them. The laws of the Lawn Tennis in the second article...
...artistic or dramatic point of view they can hardly be called successful and there can be no argument here for their continuance. If, then, the Sophomore theatricals fail in their chief purpose and, still further, there is among their members this sentiment against them this vote, in its effect on them, does not seem unwarranted or unjustified...