Word: effects
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...trust that this immense difference between the two scores may not have the effect of discouraging men from trying their best; for, after all, it is only by trying hard that anything is to be accomplished. And now that the principles of training are so radically changed from what they were five years ago, requiring less dieting, etc., it is to be hoped that when the spring comes, men will be willing to make a temporary sacrifice of a few bodily comforts in order to put our Athletic Association on a footing equal to that of any college...
Since my return from the seaside, where I have been studying the arrangement of "clouds," and the effect of moonlight on the complexion, I have been making the necessary preparations for my long, and, it is to be hoped, profitable voyage. Fifteen pounds of "Lone Jack" was my first investment. I have laid in this large supply, as it will be difficult to procure the correct weed along the route. As Athens is on the programme, I have taken Volume VIII. of Grote to refresh my memory of Socrates and the Prytaneum. The library of the "Ontario" seemed to lack...
While some twenty men were engaged in subjecting a few inoffensive youths to various indignities, half a dozen members of the class entered the room and requested their classmates to leave the Freshmen alone. The effect was entirely satisfactory. The hazing party withdrew, and the men of '81 were left to retire to their peaceful beds at whatever hour they pleased...
...might be expected, the several articles published in your paper last year on the subject of ventilation produced no effect. It is admitted, I believe, by nearly all architects, that they are unable to lay down rules in regard to the ventilation and acoustical properties of buildings. They say that in the present state of the building art these things are a mere matter of chance. This being the case, we cannot find fault with the constructors of our recitation-rooms, particularly as they were most of them built long before ventilation was ever heard of. What I do want...
...quarters, and cross-examine each man on any point which might suggest itself to the reportorial mind. Now if there are any things which a crew must do, those things are to keep quiet and to keep their own council. What other means could have produced this desired effect we do not know, but it seems to be a settled point that the then simple but now historic sign, REPORTERS AND LOAFERS ARE WARNED FROM HERE, was sufficient to secure the crew from intrusion...