Word: result
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students and the citizens of Cambridge of dealing directly with the large stores in Boston. It is asserted that the elevated road would destroy the business prospects of the Cambridge stores. The truth is that the trade of Cambridge is essentially the trade of Boston and that the only result would be an immense saving of time. It is contended that an elevated road not only deteriorates the value of the real estate it passes, but also proves a disfigurement to the city and a source of much discomfort to the citizens. Let it be kept in mind that...
Nearly every intercollegiate boat-race in this country has been won at the end of the third mile. The result has been a "procession" for the fourth mile, or a desperate attempt on the part of the defeated crew to retrieve themselves. The consequent tendency has been to lessen the interest in college boating, or to endanger the health of the participants from over-exertion and heart-strain. Therefore...
...college weekly from away out in the far-off West, recently, in the exuberance of its enterprise, published a volume of "College Verses" selected from its own collumns and largely also from those of esteemed contemporaries. Result: a deficit of $130 in the editorial treasury. A sad but timely warning (pace the Advocate and its collection of tearful tributes to the muses) to all who may feel inclined to go and do likewise...
...every period of examination most students become filled with a spirit of exultation-shall we call it-which must be taken as the natural result of a release from the severe strain just passed through with. When filled with this spirit, students are much more approachable than they ordinarily are and often yield to instincts which, were it not for the infusion of said spirits, would have no influence whatever. We have every reason to suppose from what we have seen that the close of the recent examination does not differ in the least from similar occasions in the past...
...crew last year, the opposition to boating was prevalent. However, the subject was much discussed, and, after some strong opposing articles in the Princetonian, a meeting was called to elect officers of the boating association and to consider the advisability of supporting a crew in the college. The meeting resulted in a unanimous decision in favor of the sport. The following issue of the Princetonian contained a leading article condemnatory of the meeting and its action was sustained by a number of letters from the Alumni condemning boating. This policy was pursued by the paper through two numbers...