Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Upper Dane tonight at 7 o'clock. The times of trials for all who have registered are posted in Upper Dane. All other members of the University desiring to try for parts should report at the time of the trials this evening. Each candidates is requested to bring a short passage of either prose or verse with which he is familiar. Mr. Wilfrid North of New York, who successfully coached "The Promised Land" last fall, has again been engaged, and will act as judge at the trials...
...University crew took advantage of the warm weather and smooth water yesterday for a hard row over the mile and seven-eighths course in the basin in preparation for the Columbia race. No time was taken as the crew stopped short of the regular distance. A racing start was made at about 38 strokes to the minute, and for the rest of the distance the crew rowed at about 31, until when nearing the finish the stroke was put up again. The boat seemed to space well between strokes, but did not go so smoothly when the stroke was high...
...current number of the Advocate is made up of five timely and well-expressed editorials, three poems, one play, three stories, and an essay. The verse is of the average undergraduate standard. The play attempts too much in a short space to be effective. Of the stories, "The Man in Puce Waistcoat" relates a humorous incident, apparently in Eighteenth Century England, of how the choleric gentleman, in the costume described, lost five pounds by betting that another wayfarer at the inn could not cure the servant girl's earache. The pain, proved to be caused by an ant which...
...until March 19 he travelled slowly north through Alabama and Georgia, to Columbia, where the University of South Carolina is situated. Guilford College, Trinity College, at Dunham, N. C., and the University of North Carolina were all visited by the President on his way to Richmond, Va. After a short stay there President Eliot left for Washington...
...will be a pleasure to see him again about the Yard in these last short weeks of his long term as president, and we are glad to hear that he will address the undergraduates, a few times more before his retirement from the office which he has filled so ably...