Word: shorts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...addition to his other work Dr. Hale was actively connected with several magazines, and he published a number of books and short stories. The best-known of these are "The Man Without a Country," "Ten Times Ten," "Memories of a Hundred Years" and "Modern Achievements...
...same private car with a funeral party; a member of the Freshman hockey team was not notified of the desirability of his presence on the occasion of the game with the Yale freshmen, etc., etc. The other and most obvious way of meeting the objection is by allowing a short competition in actual management of the team, calculated to sound a man's real capacity. In our opinion such an objection should not be allowed to outweigh the real benefits to be derived from the abolition of a system rotten to the core...
...practice for the University and Freshman crew squads yesterday afternoon was very light. The University eight went down-stream to the Cottage Farm Bridge and back, rowing in short stretches at a stroke varying between 33 and 35. Most of the practice this week has been of this order with a view to quickening the work of the men through out the boat...
...short, if a difficult theoretical subject like logic or psychology or history of philosophy is really to reach a large number of beginners, it would be absurd for the instructor to feel influenced by such negative votes, unless he knew the quality of the voter. Above all it would be dangerous for our elective system, if serious students were guided by such a commentary in the choice of their courses. There may be poor courses in the University, but the chances are great that this kind of canvassing with this kind of answering and tabulating entirely distorts the picture...
...length from the Middlesex second four, who were one half length ahead of the Freshman third. Middlesex jumped into the lead at the start, but the Freshmen pulled up when Talbot, No. 3 in the Middlesex boat, jumped his slide. The Freshmen then slowly forged ahead and finished a short length in the lead...