Word: potent
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...college, particularly on the nine and crew, but of late there has been a strong feeling among the graduates and undergraduates against such treatment, for it is by this means that Harvard invariably puts into the field teams which are by no means representative. This has been the most potent cause of Harvard's failure to keep up her end with the other colleges...
...intercollegiate competitions as it is the debating training of the university which they represent." A strange enigma; for it is in "the forensic ability of the individual contestants" that the debating training which a university gives to its members is put to the test. This very fact is a potent reason for insisting that the forensic ability of the individual debaters shall count for all it is worth and not be deprived of its individuality by coaching...
...Castle Square Theatre celebrates its first anniversary of opera. Monday night's performance will be the 409th consecutive. The summer season also will begin then. The house has been put in summer trim from top to bottom. The "steady breeze of iced air," which last summer proved a potent attraction will blow again. The Ideal Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar Club has been re-engaged for promenade concerts for the summer, and will play while the audiences are gathering, and between the acts. The remarkable success of last year's summer season is widely known and the management will surpass...
...testify that it is decidedly an exaggeration to say that the name of Harvard is becoming a laughing-stock, or that "as a University" she is losing her reputation among any persons whose opinion is worth a moment's consideration. Her position and reputation are above even the potent influences of the football scores. Her recent athletic defeats are attributed (I do not say rightly, but speak only of opinions among college men) in part to developments in intercollegiate athletics outside the control of her students, and in part to her unwillingness to rival other universities by admitting the evils...
...year for the tenth time Mr. D. L. Moody has invited the students of America to meet at Northfield, Mass., for conference and Bible study under the direction of the College Department of the International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Associations. The Northfield Conference has been a potent factor of recent years in the promotion of Christian life and work among college men, and from it have sprung similar gatherings, at the West, at the South, in England, Germany, Scandinavia, India and Japan...