Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...shorter course would be advantageous to the students. - (a) The average age of graduation has now risen too high. - (b) Opportunity to save a year would be welcomed by many men. - (1) Preparing for professions. - (2) Possessing little means. - (3) Intending to enter business career. - (c) Other men might take regular four years course or enter graduate school. - (1) More serious work can be done there...
...imagination produced on this side of the water. The Blithedale Romance differs from all of Hawthorne's other works in containing Zenobia, the one dramatically conceived and completely expressed character which this author has offered us. But in many of their traits both the novels and the shorter tales are alike. The sense of sin is the cardinal motive and the dominant quality of all Hawthorne's work. But his treatment of sin never strikes upon the conscience. He uses the conscience rather as a fantastic yet serious play ground for his genius. He is the chief American...
Freshman Crew.The two freshman crews rowed for a shorter time than usual yesterday, some of the time being taken up by the election of a captain. The rowing was followed by a run. The make-up of the first crew was changed by Adams's taking the place of Fuller at bow. The order was: Stroke, Rice; 7, Ames; 6, Woodward; 5, Aldrich; 4, Goodrich; 3, Butler; 2, Scull; bow, Fuller, Adams...
...freshman crews rowed a shorter time than usual yesterday. The stroke was lively and the men showed plenty of snap. The chief fault just now is a tendency to go forward too fast...
...varsity crew, instead of rowing in the Carey Building, took a long walk which ended in a short run. It seems that this form of exercise will be taken quite frequently during the coming winter as being a far more healthful form of exercise than the former methods of shorter and more exhausting runs. In order to avoid the annoyance which a large crowd of onlookers makes to the coaches, the rowing room in the Carey Building will be open to visitors only Wednesday afternoons...