Word: effecting
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...opinion, that the action of Harvard, in withdrawing from the Intercollegiate Football League, is justified. To put on teams players who are not bona fide students has a pernicious effect on the teams, on the colleges, and on the sport. College athletics have become infected with professionalism, and there is no prospect of improvement under the present League. The spirit of recent conventions has been that of casting formal difficulties in the way of a proper agreement between gentlemen. We are convinced that the League in its present form is an obstacle to genuine sport...
DEAR SIR.- In the New York Herald of the date of November the 15th there was a despatch from Philadelphia to the effect that Mr. Ammerman, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, had been approached by a prominent member of the Harvard nine and had been offered inducements to come to Harvard. In reply to your question concerning the article I wish to say that I have not made and no one has been authorized by me to make any offer whatsoever to Mr. Ammerman or to anybody else, Yours very truly, PHILIP B, LINN, Capt...
...shall be only too happy to make a statement in regard to the conditins under which you and the rest of the College boys went to England. I had an interview with Mr. A. G. Hodges last evening and gave him a letter to the effect that you went purely for pleasure, and that no money except for your absolute expenses, was allowed. I can go still further and say that no money was paid to any of the gentlemen except upon their presentation of vouchers covering the amount of the preceeding week's expenses, all of which vouchers...
Rule 2 shall go into effect on January 1, 1890, but shall not be retroactive, in the sense of disqualifying by reason of past acts men who would be eligible under the practice at that time existing...
...Romantic movement, however, produced a lasting effect in the powerful impulse which it gave to the study of mediaeval literatures. Many of the poetic treasurers of the middle ages which had been buried for centuries were now brought to light and the side of the Romantic tendency in literature then arose to a parallel tendency in philology, most conspicuously represented in its early beginnings by the two Grimm brothers, the founders of the new science of Germanic philology...