Word: short
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...freshman crew, has been given complete control. About thirty men remain from the last reduction in numbers and these give splendid prospect for a strong freshman crew this year. The readiness with which the fall freshman crew mastered the stroke as far as it was possible in so short a time, and the good showing they made in the fall regatta, augurs well for ultimate success...
John Fox, Jr., '83, author of "The Kentuckians," "Hell fer Sartain," and other stories, gave a reading from his works last evening in Sanders Theatre, concluding the series of the Cantabrigia Club. Mr. Fox prefaced his reading with a short sketch of the Kentucky mountaineer in order to make the stories more intelligible to those who were unfamiliar with this unique type of American character. Mr. Fox has portrayed this character in his stories with a clear insight and a fine sense of humore. His complete mastery of the dialect, from having been much among the mountaineers, and his understanding...
...their first three years; and men who had missed their degree in a former year by a deficiency of only one or two courses. In many instances employment might be more readily obtained during the spring than in the summer or autumn, and those who wished to have a short time for private study, recreation or travel before beginning professional work, would have a more suitable opportunity than under the present system...
Attention is called to the increasing number of students admitted for short periods of residence. These men, it appears, are as a rule students of ability and application and so far from its being objectionable to give them degrees after short residence, the University, in President Eliot's opinion, renders a distinct service to the community in so doing...
There appear also some verses in the untypical, unliterary, ungentlemanly, profane style which has marred the short stories put forth by Harvard men during the past year. Because Kipling damns is no reason why we should...