Word: short
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fraternity houses and dorms and rooming houses harbor many erstwhile students who soon will be travelling homeward toward doting daddies. When a considerable calamity visits any community, there comes a bountiful crop of satisfying, but short-lived resolutions of "Never again." Within a month, the whole crowd of resolutions go a-glimmering, and the community tumbles back into the rut which leads to disaster...
...University oarsmen will be quartered in the Harry Payne Whitney cottage during their short training period at Gales Ferry preceeding the Yale race this June. Definite arrangements for the regatta were recently announced at New London when the captains of the two crews together with the University managers met the Yale coaches to discuss the situation. Outside of the matter of quarters for the crews no changes were made in the program as planned in January...
...take charge of practice this spring. R. T. Fisher '12, formerly captain of the University team, G. G. Browne '10, who played end on Haughton's first team which beat Yale 4-0, and R. W. P. Brown '98 will attend the meeting and each will probably give a short talk. It is hoped that Leo Leary '05, field coach in 1916, will be present, but he may be unable to attend. The meeting will be very short, in order not to interfere with other engagements for the same evening...
...Owing to the unfavorable weather conditions, the game between the Freshmen and the tentative second team which was scheduled for Saturday had to be called off. The first team was likewise unable to hold any practice in preparation for the game with Bowdoin on Wednesday, but was given a short talk by Coach Duffy...
...question of exercise we leave entirely to his own volition. The Athletic Association deserves credit for having done all in its power to make voluntary athletics universal in the University. It is not its fault that the present system operates only for the comparative few. But since everything possible short of compulsory athletics will not accomplish the result desired the one course open to secure that result is to follow the recommendation of the Board of Overseers...