Word: short
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...short competition for the position of circulation manager of the Harvard University Register will begin this evening, when all members of the Sophomore class who wish to compete must report at 33-Apley. The competition will last until December 5, and will consist solely of canvassing for subscriptions...
...Emmons, 3rd, '20, opened the meeting by leading a series of long and short cheers. Then he yielded the platform to Kellett, the newly appointed song leader. The latter, who led the singing at Camp Devens during the war, instilled a spirit into the gathering such as has not been seen at Harvard since the fall of 1916. Time and again the room rang to the tunes of "Harvardiana" and "The Gridiron King" until the leader was satisfied and Trumbull took the stand...
After this workout, Team C of the Freshmen took the place of Team A and held the second team's substitutes. The afternoon practice ended in a short hard scrimmage between the Freshman Teams...
...Union are invited to attend the meeting to be held tonight in honor of Col. Theodore Roosevelt '80, at which William Roscoe Thayer '81 will speak. The meeting will be held in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock, and will open with a short introductory speech by Dean C. N. Greenough '98. Mr. Thayer will then make an address on "Some Interesting Incidents in Col. Roosevelt's Career." After this there will be a two-real motion picture entitled "Through the Roosevelt Country with Roosevelt's Friends...
...means cutting down the hours of operation still further and involving a tremendous loss in production. Mr. H. N. Taylor., president of the National Coal Association, stated under oath that the workers received from five to fifteen dollars a day. Increasing this wage by sixty percent would, in a short time, at the expense of the public, breed a new stock of millionaires of the leisure class. Do the mine workers really believe they are going to better their conditions by their demands? Do they not realize that the loss they produce, the less other industries will produce? Scarcity...