Word: short
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fourth hare and hound run was held yesterday afternoon. Owing to the rain and the muddy condition of the streets the course was short, being around Fresh Pond and back by way of Mt. Auburn and Brattle streets. The break was made at the east end of Mt. Aubrn Cemetery. The hares were out 36 minutes and the hounds 41 minutes. The first four hounds finished in the following order...
...piazza ten feet wide has been built between the ell and the main building extending round behind it and for a short distance along the western side in order to form a porch in front of the side door. Two doors will open on this piazza from the back of the main building. Between the buildings the piazza is left open but at the side and in the rear is roofed over...
...speaking was vigorous and pleasing, but even the difficulty of handling well so broad a subject in so short a debate did not excuse the absence of any real arguments on the part of the principal disputants. The speakers from the house showed a better conception of the question, however, and approached the debate in a better manner...
Yale went through signal practice for some fifteen minutes yesterday and then lined up against the scrub for a short time. The 'varsity fumbled considerably, probably owing to the snow and slush, but the second eleven were unable to hold at any point...
Never has a meaner or more cowardly charge been brought against Harvard University than that made in yesterday morning's issue of the New York Sun. In the article in question, the insinuations made against Capt. Cabot are absolutely false and nothing short of libel; in fact they are exactly what one would expect from some sensational newspaper, rather than from a paper of the Sun's standing...