Word: affected
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...Whenever a foul is committed which in the opinion of the umpire did not affect the play the offended side may decline the penalty. In case of a run being made from this play not more than fifteen yards from the spot where the foul was committed shall be allowed." Why limit B's gain because A is off-side...
...distances we are discussing appear vastly more important when it is remembered that very shortly we shall depend for transit on an elevated railway, which will have one station at Harvard or Brattle square, another at Putnam square, and none between. This will affect students as they come and go from Boston. A club requiring a third of a mile walk will not be a natural stopping place for students coming from town, nor will it be convenient to graduates who have attended a game at Soldiers Field; these will think twice before they walk the required distance...
...four hundred dollars and far too many of one hundred and fifty or less." In Oxford a "scholar" gets his scholarship by examination before he enters the university and then holds it throughout his university career. The result is not only to make the scholarships more desirable, but to affect the schools which, in England, instead of "preparing men to satisfy the 'entrance requirements'", fit them to try for scholarships. So Professor Ashley ends by saying: "If the grants of Price Greenleaf Aid were raised in amount and lessened in number; if pains were taken to make them known...