Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...which are little better than grunts. We have hosts of curt little vowels that seem to be the remnants of some full sounds which a continual press of business prevents us from ever completing. One of the most hybrid and unsatisfactory of these - to take an instance - is our short o, as in hot. It is quite interesting to speculate as to what the full sound can be which is swallowed before uttered in this case: is it a bark, a whoop, or a growl...
Yale, also, has had such contests. The programme at one of these which took place about a year ago, consisted of long walking and running races, short dashes of two hundred yards or so, running and standing, high and long jumps, hurdle racing, and throwing the base ball...
...done, the instruction must be adapted to the average student, and that average taken as low as possible. Then those who are accounted the "shining lights" of the class will be only too glad to spend, in the most congenial way, what extra time is gained by short lessons and clear summaries in the recitation-room. The average student will not be so hard pressed that, in despair of learning anything, he aims only to avoid a condition; nor will there be found a man in the whole of any class so stupid or irredeemably lazy that an instructor cannot...
...College House seems to be especially exposed to fire, and the arrangement of the entries is such that, should a fire once be started, a very powerful draught would be created, which would carry the fire throughout the whole building in a very short time, cutting off all escape by the stairways...
...scanty number of Exchanges this week may, perhaps, be accounted for by the fact that many Colleges are having a short vacation at about this time. The Dartmouth Anvil has, however, made its appearance, and we may say, has come out strong, for it growls and shows its teeth at Amherst and Harvard in a most savage manner. Its scathing criticism on an account of the Boating Convention in our last issue had for its object, no doubt, the utter annihilation of the Magenta. Still, we feel in duty bound to present No. 7 to our readers, and will here...