Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...TAYLOR.BAND AND DRUM CORPS.- Short rehearsal at 5.20 today. Every man must attend so that no more rehearsals will be necessary...
...race, but only five will start in an event. The tandem teams will be Hewitt and Baker on a Transit and Hurt and Powers on a Syracuse. There are five races as follows: Quarter-mile, half-mile, mile, five mile, and tandem. Hewitt, Powers and Baker will ride the short distances, quarter, half, and mile; Dacy, Wood and Burdett will ride in the five mile, and Richards and Hurt will start in the mile race. There will be only one man from each college in a heat. Columbia and Pennsylvania are generally considered to have the strongest teams...
...volume of short stories by Henry James is shortly to be published by Macmillan and Co., under the name Embarrassments. The studies are entitled The Figure in the Carpet, Glasses, The Next Time, and The Way It Came, and are sketched in Mr. James's usual minute and clever manner...
Fiction is represented by a further installment of Henry James' absorbing serial, The Old Things; a short story of Alabama life, The Price of a Cow, by Mrs. Elizabeth W. Bellamy, and The Whirligig of Fortune, an incident of the French Commune, by T. Russell Sullivan...
...exception of two, who is a little slow, the port side is much better than the starboard. The starboard side is very ragged, and none of the oars go in together; three's oar particularly is high and late. The now four are inclined to be weak and short on the leg work...