Word: short
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Advocate appears cheerily in its thousandth-or-so-number, with its scanty editorials, like the inadequate short skirts of a growing girl; its verses, its tales and its one page of "solid article." Here the reader catches a whiff of the Ladies' Home Journal; there he finds a hint for those short pages of the Century where the verse is tucked in; but few suggestions of the Advocate in the days when it was only the Harvard Advocate...
...State road, Col. Cordier received information that hostile patrols had been sighted in the vicinity of Spy Pond. He immediately notified the Commanding Officer of the Advance Guard of this information, and the latter at once despatched an officer's patrol to reconnoitre in that direction. This occasioned a short halt of the column, but within fifteen minutes a motor-cyclist arrived with a message from the front stating that the hostile patrols had been repulsed and that the progress of the command need not be further delayed. Throughout the advance messages were sent back and forth from head...
...University took two of its six runs in the second inning. Harte led off with a triple. Beal walked, and Fripp followed him by hitting a hard liner through short, scoring Harte. Fripp himself scored later when Healy lost his control and forced in a run. Abbot add- ed one to the tally in the next inning by singling and racing home when Healy fielded Harte's bunt and threw wild to first. Another score came in the sixth on Garritt's single. Coolidge's futile rap to third, and Nash's two-base hit to center. The scoring...
Note.--Reveille (5.45 o'clock A. M.) is always followed by "setting up" drill exercises. Retreat (5 o'clock P. M.) is followed by a short drill. There is no instruction Sundays. On week-days, evening lectures sometimes are given on various military subjects...
...outstanding facts about the Department of Economics are that it is of comparatively recent origin, and that its growth has been extremely rapid. The first chair of Political Economy was not established until 1871, and prior to that time the only instruction offered in the subject was one short course given by the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity. The growth of the Department during the last half century can best be shown by the following statistics: Year. No. of Teachers. No. of Courses. Hours of Instruction per Week. Students...