Word: effecting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...were applied to the alumni, many would long remain within the classic shades. The emerald green of the College Yard, from the old President's house to the remotest corner of the delta, would soon be whitened with the bones of the alumni who died in ineffectual struggles to effect their escape from the college...
...deep study of methods of rowing, won for him the entire confidence of the crew, and it was his confidence, together with his nerve and coolness, which enabled him to take the race into his own hands at the start and keep it there until the finish. The effect that our victory ought to, and will, have is an increased interest in boating at Harvard, and the success of this year will be but a stronger incentive to work for a like success next year, when we may be sure that Yale will do all she can to reverse...
...result of the race with Columbia, although confidently expected, was a handsome victory which would have been much more highly esteemed had it not been eclipsed by the victory of four days later. Its effect was felt both by the Crew and by the College in the increased confidence which it inspired in our ability to match Yale...
...College desiring to be represented in the Association shall present at the Annual Convention of said Association a written official notice to that effect...
...complete our training and render us fitted for public life, if called upon, we need such instruction as shall teach us, by examples from present history, to clearly see the relations between cause and effect, between theory and practice, between the fundamental principles we have been learning in history and political economy and the apparently disconnected and eccentric movements of the world to-day. Such instruction would be too wide and comprehensive to be confined within the limits of an elective course. If given this year, it should have enabled us to understand, for instance, the financial crisis through which...