Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with regard to the relations of body and mind set in, and the "gray-eyed morning" of a new era smiled on the frowning night. Roussean, the great apostle of freedom, hurled the thunders of his fiery eloquence against the strongholds of mental despotism and traditional authority with terrible effect, and on their ruins he laid the corner stone of a new educational empire. Roussean's Emile was the great event of the last century prior to the French revolution. Its boldness of thought and language startled the whole world. While reading it, Kant, the sage of Koenigsberg...
...Dwight, held that while there were doubtless, some persons who were inclined toward one college or another by its athletic success, the public opinion as regards the number of such person is greatly exaggerated. The general opinion was that such circumstances as athletic victory or defeat do have some effect; but the influence they exercise is confined to a small class of persons...
...good as could possibly be expected. The committee will probably make a report upon the practicability of the proposed changes soon after the mid-years, and measures will be taken to carry out the resuggestions. The system in the Hall is so complicated that any "tinkering" takes effect on the price of board, the responsibility for which will rest on the directors, who are consequently unwilling to take any steps without the most careful consideration...
...Ingoldsby and His Legends" is an appreciative study of the writer of that remarkable book of tales. The writer points out with effect the main characteristics of Barham's poetry and of the general attitude of mind portrayed in it. These "legends" abound with some of the purest fun in the English language and it is extraordinary that they are comparatively so little known...
...Harebells" suffers from two very noticeable faults-lack of mastery of a very difficult form of verse, and the clothing of an otherwise pretty simile in too many words. While there is a good line here and there, it is lost in the effect of the whole, which impresses one rather as an attempt at versifying than as a piece of poetry. "The Templar's Song" is very musical and is full of martial notes. It sets us right in the midst of the Crusades. This poem breathes more healthy life and has much more blood in its veins...