Word: short
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Norton's statements. I am also a "son of the young and growing West" and came to Cambridge from Leland Stanford only last month, thoroughly informed of Harvard's aristocratic and even "snobbish" ideas. I was made to realize the fallacy of my information in a very short time...
...prose contributions a story, "Strangers," by Hardinge Scholle, is the most ambitious. There are, besides, two brief sketches by A. D. Fay and Thomas Wharton, and two pieces of critical writing. This is all well enough, but falls short of the vigor and originality of which undergraduates have frequently shown themselves capable. They are still capable of something better than the average contents of the professedly "literary" undergraduate periodicals at Harvard. It is often said that a coalition of existing periodicals would bring this to pass. Is it not possible that some improved process of "digging out" the best might...
...Boston office to make preliminary enrolment and then make appointments for physical examinations at the Charlestown Navy Yard before the final enlistment. By means of the present arrangement, the physical examination and the enrolment take place at the same place and the enlistment can be made in a short time. The office is open for this enrolment on every week day from 9 to 5 o'clock...
...some of the worst immigrants are allowed to enter this country while some of the most desirable are excluded. The Black Hand enters into the play and takes a significant role. "The Harbor of Lost Ships," by Louise Whitefield Bray, is a one-act sketch adapted from a short story by Ellen Payne Huling, a former Radcliffe student. The scene is laid on an island off the coast of Labrador. A life constrained by dogmatic religious principles and the fire and brimstone teachings of a narrow-minded parson is depicted by the play. "The Harbor of Lost Ships...
...first two University crews launched their shells in Lynn harbor yesterday afternoon and for the first time this year took a short practice row. The float of the West Lynn Boat Club, which drifted away two days ago, was discovered stranded on the opposite shore of the bay and yesterday morning was put in position. The "Pup," however, was not running, and Coach Haines was unable to follow the boats...