Word: short
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Conn., June 6.--This afternoon at 5 o'clock the University and Freshman crews arrived at Red Top. Immediately following the arrival all three eights were given a short work-out consisting of a three-quarter mile paddle down stream against wind the tide. This is the first time since the spring of 1916 that a University shell has been launched on the Thames. The Yale crews came down from Gales Ferry to cheer Harvard just as the latter arrived from Cambridge...
...Harvard Magazine's attack, which called forth the CRIMSON's ill-considered reply, there is a halfpenny worth of bread which should not be cast in vain upon the waters. The news writing in the CRIMSON seems to call for an improvement in style. The short, matter of fact sentences allow little room in which to go wrong, but they also make it impossible to be interesting. More color, more space, more frivolity, more careless handling of the powers that be--a premium in the competitions on sprightliness,--while revolutionary would give the CRIMSON more life. The proposed increase...
...least after they have made the board) sometimes attend lectures; that they are undergraduates; and that they have not long here below in this college world. When the CRIMSON editor has worked through the grades of his apprenticeship and reaches the presidency of the paper, he has one short half-year of life and then passes on to make way for a successor; his skill is necessarily gained late. These are reasons why most undergraduate publications have only streaks of success and long waste spaces of desolation and boredom; and conversely, the writing of graduate students and younger members...
Maynard, who has been rowing at stroke in the "Cosmopolitan" shell, is only temporarily taking the place of Peters in the first boat, who has been incapacitated for a short time on account of boils on his left wrist...
About one hundred Seniors who have signed pledges have failed to send their first installment to the Class Treasurer, L. K. Garrison, at Claverly 30. The time has therefore been extended from June 1 to June 15. The Class Fund is still short of what is needed. Seniors who have not yet subscribed should send pledges to the Treasurer as soon as possible...