Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stuck to their usual tactics, seldom running with the ball, but forcing the attack by a series of passes from one man to another. By this plan New York was unable to cover her opponents, and as her men grew tired successive goals were made on her, each in shorter time than the preceding. The third goal was made before fifty minutes, and by it the Oelrichs cup came into the possession of Harvard...
...yards and the shorter distances can be run only by good sprinters while the mile is too long for any runner who has not made it his specialty. Both classes of men can with a little training run a half-mile well. Myers and Goodwin of Harvard are examples of half-mile runners who began at the spirinting distances. Fredericks and George, the great English amateurs, are long distance runners who have been successful at the half-mile. A second reason for choosing this distance is that it is very desirable to develop fast half-mile runners with a view...
...presented to the public, and is but natural when the familiar character of the composition and the position of the author are viewed. The writer informs us in the modest preface that the poems contained in the volume were written, with the exception of two of the shorter ones, before coming to college, and this statement must dull, it would seem, the pen of the most ill-natured critic...
...have before remarked, some of the shorter poems have serious faults, but they are only natural ones that experience would surely remove. In general there is a healthy imagery, a delicious freedom from that morbid, sickly perversion of aestheticism that is so much sought after by writers of rhyme at the present time. The poems are the offsprings of an unsullied imagination and of an intellect more vigorous and growing than subtle or matured; the poet thinks of something else than garden-wall or opera-box love; there comes home to him those other feelings and impulses of youth...
...entered amid deafening cheers. Some enthusiastic individual arose and asked three cheers for the nine, which were heartily given. Some one then asked nine cheers for the 'Varsity Crew, and the crew must have certainly been gladdened by the enthusiasm of the plaudits. The crew seemed to row a shorter and quicker stroke than usual. After finishing they were again cheered...