Word: short
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Exeter, Carter, Miller and Clay all did exceptionally good work. In the fifth inning, with three men on bases, a quick double play was made by Carter, Miller and Weeks when Clark hit a short grounder to the infield...
...four hits and three errors. They thus secured a lead which they held until in the eighth, with the score 6 to 5, the College nine made three runs. A. Galbraith made a hit, stole second and came in on Slade's three-base hit. Slade scored on a short...
...Life, on "Life in the Naval Reserves," and "Aid to the Sick and Wounded," announced for this evening, are of exceptional significance at the present date. There was a comparatively small attendance at the first two lectures on Tuesday evening, but this we believe was due to the short notice of their occurrence, and we are confident that the effort of the Corporation to thus cater to the immediate interests of the undergraduates by providing for a course of such public interest, will be justified by large audiences tonight and next week...
...forthcoming number of the Advocate contains four short stories, several verses and the usual complement of editorials and College Kodaks. The verses are all unpretentious and the chief interest in the number centres in the fiction. Of the four stories the most entertaining from a college point of view is "The Surprises of Sanders" by H. P. Huntress '99. The plot is rather improbable but there is just enough surprise in it to give it justification. Strange to say the real heroine of the tale plays a very small part, and the reader is left wondering why she was introduced...
After the meeting a crowd of students headed by the drum corps marched to President Eliot's house. President Eliot made a short speech in which he expressed his approval of the spirit of the flag giving, and a hope that something might be presented to the "Harvard" which officers and men alike might appreciate. He counselled the students to act with certainty, moderation and resolution...