Word: shorts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...conducted "Brantwood," an encampment for poor boys on Pack Monadnock Mountain, New Hampshire. This year he intends to enlarge the camp and will give his address tonight with the object of interesting some members of the University sufficiently to induce them to aid him in his work for short times next summer...
...field sports and short distance track events, Amsler of Pennsylvania won the 120-yard hurdles; Moffett of Pennsylvania the high jump; Hogenson of Chicago the 100-yard dash; Dray of Yale the pole vault; Thomas of Purdue the hammer throw; Mount Pleasant of Carlisle the broad jump; and Coe, formerly of Oxford, the shot...
...Copeland will give his second lecture on "The Short Story" Wednesday evening, at 8 o'clock, in Sever...
During the past two weeks the candidates for the track team have been confined to elementary work in order to give them endurance. The sprinters and hurdlers have been running short stretches, the weight throwers and jumpers have been doing light work, and the long distance men have been taking distance runs without sprinting at the finish. During the April recess the men who remain in Cambridge will do light work, but those who go away will be expected to keep in good condition. After Monday, April 24, the finishing work of the season will commence...
...three trial eights on April 1, the work has shown fairly consistent improvement. The catch and beginning of the stroke are distinctly better, though there is generally a lack of drive, and the men are showing a persistent tendency to rush. On Tuesday the two trial eights had several short brushes with each other and with the Senior class crew. In a three minute brush upstream Farley's eight defeated the Senior crew; Filley's boat came in third. Some time before the end of the week, the University eight, possibly together with the second crew and the Senior eight...