Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...number of men who have reported to Coach Quinn for the fall work in the field events is very small and a larger number of men from the Freshman class, particularly, is desired. The fall work, while necessarily shorter than that of the colleges farther south, is absolutely essential for a successful spring season. All men who desire to participate in the Freshman track meet on October 16 should report at once, as there is but little more than two weeks remaining in which to train. The handicap games follow a week later...
...trials in the new square-sterned shell designed by C. H. Crane '94. Later on, time trials will be held and the new style shell will be compared with the old, in order to find out which is the faster. The new boat is about six feet shorter than the standard shells which have been used for the past 25 years, and draws almost an inch more water. The stern resembles the sterns of the swift motor-boats...
Manager Kingman explained that, as the schedule had not yet been approved, no definite order of games could be given; but that there would be a Southern training trip during the spring recess including games with Mt. Washington, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, and Hobart. Plans are pending also for another shorter trip...
...year ago Harvard defeated Technology in the long distance race, but lost the shorter relay. Judging from the way that the University runners defeated both of the Technology teams in New York on Saturday evening, both races should this year go to Harvard...
...being drawn out to a fine point as in previous boats. The new shell embodies some of the lessons Mr. Crane learned in designing hydroplanes. Although it is square, it is so built that it will drag the least possible water astern. The fact that it is seven feet shorter than previous boats will materially lessen the skin resistance. Mr. Crane is convinced of the superiority of the new design from the result of many tests made in the government testing tank, at Washington, D. C. In these tests models of one of the old shells, properly weighted, were compared...