Word: short
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...QUINLAN, Capt.The Harvard Electric club has received an invitation to visit the Cambridge electric light station on Wednesday evening, November 20. Previous to the visit, there will be a short business meeting in the club room...
...worked the ball up to Princeton's twenty-five yard line where Trafford tried for a goal from the field. Princeton took the play and brought the game to the middle of the field. Ames and Trafford kicked back and forth, and Channing and Cowan advanced the ball by short rushes through Harvard's line. Ames ran fifteen yards around the end and the game was brought to Harvard's twenty-five yard line. Ames caught Trafford's punt and the ball was returned across Harvard's line and Saxe was forced to touch it down for a safety. Score...
...court epics are of a different nature, being similar to the short English verse of seven or eight feet. Of this class the principal writers are Hartmann, Gottfried von Strasbourg and Wolfram Eschenbach. Hartmann, the author of "Erick," a poem of several thousand lines, was a writer of great poetic genius, as was Got fried, who, although unable to read or write, has left a poem of 1900 lines. But after the death of these three men there was a great decline in literature...
...means of field work, photographs, and voluntary contributions of members. The following new members were elected: H. C. Low, R. G. Emmet, H. H. Harris, L. H. Davis, A. N. Sargent, L. K. Perot, E. L. Kenyon, W. Wells. After the business meeting Mr. J. B. Woodworth gave a short address descriptive of the method of work pursued by the United States Geological Survey at Gay Head last summer...
...time the brief was due compelled many men to postpone the greater part of the work until the briefs were returned. Briefs were returned yesterday and the forensics are due next Wednesday-thus giving only six days for the actual work of writing. This is altogether too short a time for the preparation of an adequate forensic. It is difficult to see why the rules cannot be less arbitrary and with more regard for the convenience of the student...