Word: potent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ignorant man who beats his wife, and is in revenge given out by her as a most skilful doctor who will not consent to practice until he is soundly beaten-this is the farce motive of the piece, and in such hands as those of Moliere it is most potent for mirth...
...Leavitt and Peirce's for the signatures of those intending to make the trip, and nothing should deter every freshman who can possibly go to do so. The encouragement infused into a team by the presence and cheering of a large number of their class-mates is a potent factor of success, and it would be a pity, indeed, if the freshmen here could not muster as large a delegation to go to New Haven as their rivals brought to Cambridge last Saturday. Besides the duty which devolves upon every member of Ninety-one to support his team...
...public opinion which demands victory." This is certainly not a prevalent abuse; if it exists at all it is among a very small element in our college world. The spirit of fairness and honor, of which most colleges boast, would soon frown down any "trickery"; and, if that potent factor in a college world-public opinion-frowns upon "trickery," how can it exist? In spite of all this, however, we believe with President Eliot that there is much that is rotten in our athletic system, and we call upon public opinion to eradicate that rottenness...
Harvard has awakened. The spirit which has animated, or rather destroyed, our life here has received so many shocks during the past few months that we doubt if it will ever make its appearance again as a potent factor in Harvard life. The system of compensation which has been in vogue here for some time past was as abnormal a system as could well be conceived. How it was possible for it to grow up and flourish in the rank luxuriance it enjoyed perhaps will remain a mystery forever; for it is hard to conceive of any cause which could...
...this notable record, so gratifying to Yale, I think two, besides other reasons, can be given. First, the influences and generalship of Walter Camp, deservedly called the father of the American Rugby game, has been most potent. When Yale suffered that first defeat he was playing the old-fashioned game in the Hopkins Grammar School team of this city; but, entering college in the following autumn, he shared in the first of many victories in November, 1876. Since that time his efforts and wise counsel have always been at the service of the team. When he was in college...