Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...graded. The first contains childish rhymes and melodies old as Ben Jonson and Shakspeare and Goldsmith, and some of the best-known fables and stories in our tongue. The second includes children's poems and nursery tales, "old as Hengist and Horsa." In the the three remaining volumes are shorter poems universally accepted as treasures of the language-many from the Elizabethan singers-and prose pieces from the best writers of the last three centuries. In the third book are, for example, many fine, strong ballads; in the fourth Sir Philip Sidney's beautiful story of Argalus and Parthenia...
...hounds run of the season will be held this afternoon. The start will be as usual from the gymnasium at 3.45. Bordman '94 and Paine '96 will be the hares. As only a day will have intervened between this race and the last, the course today will be shorter than before...
...musical clubs have received permission to take their regular Christmas trip this year. They have prepared an itinerary which probably will be accepted readily by the faculty. It is superior to any for two or three years, being much shorter and thereby avoiding the usual fatigue...
...take the year for his sabbatical vacation, which he expects to spend in Cambridge. Not only his course Fine Arts 4, which would regularly come next year, but Fine Arts 3, will be given, both, however, as half courses. An attempt will be made to cover thoroughly as the shorter time will allow, the same ground which is now included in the full courses...
...directing them from a pair oar, or from the bank. They also row down the basin, always with a slow stroke, never quicker than thirty to the minute. The strokes are long and slow, excellent for a four mile race, but scarcely with enough life and snap for a shorter one. The men are apt to hang on the full reach and don't succede in keeping the boat on even keel. However, the crew is an average freshman one, and with the month of work they have yet before the race at New London, they should make a great...