Word: effective
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...service takes hold of the workers so slightly, if they lack that optimistic enthusiasm which stimulates such people as Miss Jane Addams and Mr. Jacob Riis, if they undertake their tasks only with a half-hearted and sentimental enthusiasm, then the result is sure to be obviously lacking in effect. If the social service workers take so little interest in their occupation that they drop it completely in the summer, then it is evident that they lack that enthusiasm which is the great heritage of social service work...
...last event, the broad jump, and in this Yale managed to win the nine points necessary to tie Princeton in the total score. In spite of the tie score, Yale claimed the meet because of a clause in the agreement between the Yale and Princeton track associations, to the effect that when there is a tie on the total points, the team winning the greater number of firsts shall be declared the victor...
...unfortunate that a track meet seldom wins as large or as enthusiastic a backing as does a football game, but the infrequency of important meets makes such the case. However, nobody can argue that this backing, when provided, has not a tremendous effect upon the outcome. Today, more than at any time during the season, this support is invaluable. The CRIMSON hopes that undergraduates will attend the meet this afternoon as much from a sense of duty as to witness good sport...
...connection with the Senior and Freshman class pictures to be taken today two customs should be observed to insure success. In the first place, although there is no rule to that effect, all Seniors who expect to be in the picture should wear caps and gowns. In past years Senior pictures have been taken with a large number of the men in plain clothes. As long as custom has it that some wear the academic costume, all who come to the picture should conform to the unwritten...
...good breeding and conventional table-manners. We sincerely hope that this sort of "fun" will be omitted this evening. If an appeal to the members' sense of decency and regard for gentle-manly conduct (as opposed to the manners of a fourth rate boarding house) can have any effect, let us be free from a custom at once hopelessly childish and also capable of great evil to the College as a whole...