Word: shortness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...have but little more than a week of lectures before the end of the term, and then after a short period of examinations the College year will be over. The questions which have been discussed during the term have been in a few instances favorably decided, but many of the live issues raised have been allowed practically to die out. What looked like a successful movement in the direction of a new Gymnasium has apparently entirely dropped from the attention of the undergraduates. We do not know whether the Corporation is considering the problem; we only hope that...
...account of the absence of Wald, who is temporarily ill with a severe cold, P. Withington '09 went in at No. 7 in the University crew during the long row in the basin. Later he was taken out and W. R. Severance '09 put in his place while a short row up-stream was tried. In the second boat the whole starboard side moved down one place and Ellis went...
...drive to deep left. The ball rolled far beyond the fielder, and Hicks made third easily. Lanigan placed one just over second base, and Hicks trotted home with the second run. Lanigan took second on a wild pitch, but remained there, as Harvey struck out, and Currier hit to short. In the same inning Princeton could not advance two men who were on base, Myers was safe at first when "Briggs dropped the ball after his injury. Dillon sent a high fly to Simons and Ballin struck out. The inning was prolonged by Dawson's drawing his second pass. Sides...
...Advocate confirms two beliefs long held by some of us, that most if not all of the contents of a college paper should have some connection with college life or thought, and that there is available for such a paper material much more interesting than the average short story. Here is an Advocate without a story; every article bears on some matter of college interest. The result is a decidedly enteriaing number...
...There short sketches fill out this number. "The importance of Being a Grind" by W. C. Greene, and its companion piece. "The Importance of Being a Sport," by H. E. Porter, remind us of one of the best Advocate periods,--some fifteen years ago, when Mr. Flandran and his contemporaries were describing Harvard Types." But with this difference today the dissecting of the victim seems kindlier; the sareasm almost genral...