Word: affect
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York Times indulges in some very cheap wit at the expense of those students who oppose the new athletic regulations. Its gibes do not at all affect the real argument, however. Indeed it seems impossible for the outside press, with rare exceptions, ever to fairly apprehend the true state of any matter of college administration or of student interest. "Let them remember," cries the Times to the students, "that as it is not every novel that a girl can safely put into the hands of her mother, so it is not every proposition that is an axiom to the experienced...
...kill baseball, which is the only sport which is much practised there. The reason assigned is that Brown compels its students to attend recitations regularly and thus practice can only be obtained from local professional and amateur nines. Otherwise than with regard to baseball the regulations do not particularly affect Brown. Nevertheless the decision of their faculty will be awaited with interest...
...collegiate amateurs, and to insist upon regulating such a comparatively unimportant point (unimportant as concerns the effect of the resolutions in general) as the length of intercollegiate boat-races? At no point in this discussion has student opinion been directly consulted, at least in any such way as to affect the final decision and therefore we do not know that it s worth while to discuss this point now that everything is practically settled. Certainly in these points of detail the resolutions are most open to criticism. We do not see the connection between such points and the general question...
There is no denying that a certain set of young Americans, more particularly in New York and in Boston, affect the Englishman and ape all his affectations. They mimic every English trick in the most snobbish way. They attempt an English accent, and they sprinkle Briticisms freely through their speech. They talk of their "fads," and they call people "cads," and they abound in the most amusing little affectations. Their greatest happiness is to be taken for an Englishman-a joy not often vouchsafed to them. It was to one of these pitiful imitations-a young Bostonian-that a clever...
...have recently seen a copy of the New Haven Palladium in which is printed the following item: "We are sorry to see in the Yale News the statement that the 'Varsity' are doing so and so. This is a Harvardism. But if we must affect something, surely some other place than Harvard should be copied from." The use of "Varsity" as an abbreviation for "University," when the term is applied to crews and teams representative of the college and professional schools, is not by any means a Harvardism, but, as all college men know, it is the word used...