Word: short
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...track squad is very busy this week preparing for the B. A. A. meet which is to be held in Mechanics Building Saturday night, and which is the big event of the indoor season. The short relay team will race Cornell and will be composed of the same men, who defeated Technology last week. Time trials were held yesterday for the 780-yard team which will race Yale. As a result the team will race Yale. As a result the team will be chosen from the following five men: J. Coggeshall '18, F. T. Donahue '18, J. W. Feeney...
...unfortunately we are not valued nearly so highly on that short sighted continent as we are in the United States of America. Unfortunately, Europe sees weaknesses in us that many others do not. She saw the Hay Bill pass Congress with its delectable slices of pork for our legislators; she saw the subsequent farcical failure of the Federalized militia; and she now sees us unarmed, save with the pen, proposing to set about her reconstruction...
...University and Freshman relay teams will have their first try-out of the year when they meet the representatives of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The University short distance team appears strong with three experienced men among its members. Although the mettle of the Freshmen is less definitely known, good times have been made in practice...
...strenuous part of the afternoon's work consisted in a scrimmage between the regulars and the B. A. A. seven, which was cut short after about 20 minutes because the Boston team needed the whole rink in preparation for its game tonight. The practice showed a great improvement on the part of the University, for the men were all in good condition and gave a much better account of themselves than on Monday. E. O. Baker '17 played one of the best games of hockey he has shown this year. He developed a remarkable amount of speed, and his stickwork...
Professor R. M. Johnston, speaking before the International Polity Club last evening, spoke on the military situation in the United States from a purely technical point of view. He showed that one of our greatest problems was that of concentrating effective bodies of troops in a short space of time. At present the transportation facilities of our railroads are entirely inadequate for such an emergency. In regard to the Chamberlain Bill he said that it provided for an enormous mass of semi-trained men without an adequate force of officers to properly direct the unmanageable numbers. It would be axactly...