Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concerts bearing the "modulus" and wave combination will ere long have to be purchased by all who do not wish to be left "out in the cold, cold ether". But at least there will be only one communication coming in out of the sky at a given time-no slight advantage for those who cannot "tune" accurately...
Rowing an unusually high beat, which it kept up to the end, the Choate School eight nosed out Browne and Nichols for the "Yale Challenge Cup" over a three quarter mile course in the Basin yesterday. The Wallingford crew jumped into a slight lead at the start and maintained this for a half-length's margin over the line. Noble and Greenough, Lynn Classical High, and Huntington placed third, fourth, and fifth respectively...
...closest and best rowed races of the season. Leading at the finish by about a quarter of a length of open water the 1923 men won the right to represent the University in the class race with Yale on May 20. In view of a slight head wind the time for the race--10 minutes and 32 seconds--was very fast and Coach Brown was well satisfied with the showing and the prospect for the contest with Yale...
...with especial keenness. This event is the mile run, which promises to be a real battle between Burke, the star Crimson miler, and Douglas. Yale's crack runner from last year's Freshman team who has done close to record time in several meets this year. Douglas is a slight favorite to win, but Burke should give him a hard flight for the University runner has done some very fine work this year, winning the event last Saturday from Sanborn of M. I. T. in extremely good time, when the condition of the track, which was rain-soaked and heavy...
...even now the throught of Brutus on Broadway is somewhat startling. Yet Cassius in Cambridge is already well known--and the somnolent influence of Polonius on a warm spring evening fully appreciated. In fact, any time during April or May the Bard might with justice quote himself, with a slight change of wording: "How many thousand of my poorest readers are at this hour asleep...