Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...editorial competition will be the last for members of the Junior class. This is also the last opportunity for Sophomores to make the news board, at the same time being the first opening at the same time being the first opening for Freshmen. The competition will be shorter than usual, lasting twelve weeks...
...competitions for the CRIMSON will commence next Wednesday evening. Candidates for the news board from 1917 and 1918 and editorial writers from the Junior class should report at the CRIMSON Office in the Union at 7 o'clock on that day. The competitions this spring will be a week shorter than in past years, extending for twelve weeks instead of thirteen...
...opinion, much investigation will have to be made before the question is decided one way or the other. In regard to changing the distance to three miles I do not believe it would lessen the strain on the men as the pace would naturally be more severe over the shorter course and the results would be about the same. I feel very strongly in favor of retaining the four-mile race, as a crew to win must know how to row and cannot rely entirely on slugging. It is the very fact that it is a long grind which makes...
...which were less than last year; baseball and fencing drew about the same number of men, and all the other sports show gains of considerable size. Certain qualifications should be made in regard to the numbers on this list. The seasons for certain sports, particularly rowing and lacrosse, were shorter than most of the others, and in the case of rowing it is probable that a number of the men who did single sculling work also rowed in an eightoared shell. The number of men who reported for hockey, gymnasium work, wrestling and fencing, which are properly winter sports...
...probability the death knell of the four-mile rowing course at Poughkeepsie has been sounded. The Intercollegiate Rowing Association, which is now composed of Cornell, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, is known to favor the shorter three-mile races, and although refusing to commit itself on the prospects of a change before the regatta next June, it is confidently expected that Cornell's renewed agitation will result in the change. Coach Courtney of Cornell and Coach Rice of Columbia are much in favor of the proposed shortening of the course, as they regard the four-mile contest too much...