Word: effects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rule the pitcher is allowed to deliver seven balls before he can be punished for sending in unfair balls while the batsman is punished for failing to strike at the first three fair balls sent in to him. This is an advantage given the pitcher which has a damaging effect on the batting, especially in the matter of trying to bat with skill by placing the ball instead of the haphazard way in vogue now. One of two things is needed to get rid of this unfair division of the penalties in question, and one of these is to extend...
...manager immediately telegraphed to come, as Prof. Norton had granted permission to play under certain restrictions in the rules which would not effect Columbia's game. It is needless to say that the New York team did not appear and the telegram was returned unanswered. Many misunderstandings between colleges can be traced to just such causes as this, where the influence of some half-witted trifler has been able to compromise the honor of all his fellow students...
...game. But as all the arrangements had been made both in the way of advertising and in securing horse-car accommodations, Mr. Clark replied that it would be impossible to play in New York and that Columbia must come here. A final telegram was received yesterday to the effect that the team refused to come and asking that the game be declared...
...local authorities, it is noticeable that measures have been taken at almost all colleges by the students themselves to secure that privilege, as was the case first at Harvard. No suggestions have ever met with such unanimous approbation from the college press as those tending to this effect. Our exchanges from Yale, Princeton, Cornell, so seldom agreeing, have all agreed in this matter. Few facts could be more significant of the intellectual tendency of the coming generation today than this; for it will not be denied we think that the undergraduate sentiment of our college is a fair representative...
...subjects for the Cobden Club medal are : 1. "The Financial Policy of the United States Concerning the Present Surplus of Revenue." 2. "The Effect of a Customs Tariff on Wages." 3. "The Effect of the Public Lands of the United States on the Growth of our National Wealth." This completion is open to any undergraduate of the college. The essays must be handed in by May 1, 1884, and the awards will be made by the following judges : Prof. Dunbar, Prof. Laughlin and Hon. Hamilton A. Hill...