Word: scant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another performance which pleased the Freshman coaches was the mile race between the first two 1924 and the University 150 pound crews, in which the first yearling eight showed the way to the University and second Freshman boats by a scant quarter length. The most exciting part of this race was between the last two boats, each taking the lead at different points during the mile, the Freshmen coming from behind toward the end and finishing even with the University boat; time for the winner 5 minutes, 36 seconds...
...next three prose contributions are not as individualistic as the others. There seems to be a little too much conscious effort in their workmanship. The verse is a pleasant relief in a garden of prose, and the all too scant allowance is varied, easy and expressive...
Captain D. W. Comins of the Worcester team surprised everyone by taking first in the 40-yard dash, beating Jenkins by a scant margin. He later on ran lead-off man in the relay against J. E. Merrill, and outran him completely, handing over a quarter-lap lead to the next...
...afternoon. J. E. Merrill of the Freshmen got the jump at the start and led the field a fast pace, until on the last corner T. Durant of the schoolboys took the inside by a bit of clever running and beat Merrill to the tape by a scant few inches. The 600-yard run was marred by a couple of falls at the beginning of the second lap, when W. Tibbetts, of Worcester, leading, with Thomas Campbell of the 1924 team a few feet behind, tripped on the corner, but got up just in time to spill Campbell...
...belonged to the great group of Harvard professors which included Norton, Child Shaler, Royce and William James; but almost as indisputably he stood apart from it--was never really of it. To the fetich of German "scientific" scholarship, the true divinity of which no one then doubted, he paid scant homage. His mind worked by flashes--flashes of wit, of iconoclastic paradox, of profound intelligence and of almost magical divination; but still, as it seemed to academic Cambridge, it worked uncanonically, irresponsibly. His knowledge was wide and luminous; on most of the subjects of which he wrote it was exhaustive...