Word: short
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Nine, and its result gives us hope that it will be as good as the old one, notwithstanding the loss of such valuable men as White, Eustis, Estabrooks, and Annan. Captain Tyler has done exceedingly well to produce so good a Nine in so short a time and out of material so untried. Bettens was much praised for his catching. The following is the score...
That life is short and that time is fleet...
...Marblehead in their reception of strangers. Visitors, especially ladies, are greeted with hoots and yells from the class of '76, assembled in a crowd for that purpose. The Student condemns his practice in words which are strong, but not too strong. The only poem in this number is a short but pretty one, called The Prayer of Phidias...
That the Museum has, in so short a time, risen from almost nothing to its present position should not be merely an object of local but of national pride. Fortunate it is, too, that an interest in these studies, and it is to be hoped not a temporary one, has sprung up, not only here but elsewhere, just at a time when metaphysical investigations are awaiting the solution of certain problems in Natural History...
...races of last Saturday were more successful than is usually the case on such occasions. Thanks to the gentlemen who had them in charge, they came off promptly, although a short time was taken in improvising an anchor; but as a gentleman who saw the need generously offered to supply it by the gift of a new anchor, we may fear no delay from that cause again...