Word: snap
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fall and at about the present time there begins a determined and wide-spread hunt for suitable snap courses, or in other words courses that are supposed to yield a maximum amount of something in return for a minimum amount of nothing. The ideal course of this kind would be one which met once a year at the pleasure of the instructor, and it is certain that such a course, if over discovered, would with its members overflow any building in the University. The search for this ideal course goes on in the same way and in the same spirit...
...Captain Black has led his team through nearly all the practice scrimmages the past week, and will probably play most of the match tomorrow, Vorys who is probably the most valuable remaining centre rush candidate, was freshman snap-back two seasons ago, and was thought likely to be picked as a regular last fall, when an injury took him from the line-up. Carter, who has been playing right guard for two weeks, is out of the game with an injury and Galt, Zenner and Durfee are to be tried at the position. Howard Baldridge has been used at right...
...Roadside Glimpses of the Great War" (MacMillan, $1.25) is interesting to Harvard undergraduates, not only because, it is the work of an alumnus, but also because is shows the reader some realistic snap-shots of the men in action...
...Team to a tie a week ago, and a hard game was expected, but the Freshmen showed that they had improved greatly since they were beaten by Worcester, and they had no difficulty in running up a large score. The team seemed to have a lot of power and snap and worked together well, the interference in particular being especially strong...
...blame for such mistakes as "Charles Dicken's reputation," "a vastly higher strata," the wrong use of "formula" on page 26, and the sudden change of a character's name from Josh to Amos on page 29. Even if the material handed in afforded no fiction with the snap we are accustomed to expect in Advocate stories, care should be taken to avoid such examples of slovenliness...