Word: effects
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...evening, as I was loitering about the entrance to the ball-room of one of the hotels at Saratoga, wishing that the thermometer would try the effect of a cold bath, I saw R., a college friend of mine and in the Senior class. He is a nice fellow, and good-looking; but, owing to the absence of those airy nothings usually indulged in by men of his age, his appearance is somewhat youthful...
...effect of purely intellectual pursuits upon the emotions...
...bolster up athletics if there is not interest enough to make more than nineteen men enter. Do the men want more costly prizes? If they do, there must be an annual assessment. Do they want other events? If they do, and will kindly write word to that effect, their wishes shall be considered. But if at the spring meeting there are not more entries than there were this fall, I shall advocate postponing athletics at Harvard until the interest is more general...
...sound of one's own voice is generally so delightful that many persons are unmindful of its effect on the weary listener, who has unfortunately been bound a captive to the prosy tyrant's ambition for a subject...
When the two-mile buoy was reached the steady stroke of our crew began to have its effect, and when No. 6 in the Cornell boat actually went to pieces, all thought that Harvard was sure of the race. But Cornell, encouraged by the cheers of the crowds of her friends along the shore, rallied wonderfully soon to recover her lost lead. At the finish she was four lengths ahead, her time for the three miles being 17 min. 13 3/4 sec.; that of Harvard...