Word: shortness
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Fiske, chairman of the 1923 Finance Committee, $142 had been secured as the result of the "Clean-up Drive" organized in the attempt to raise the fund in the Freshman treasury to $4,000. Added to GE $3583.50 previously obtained this makes a total of $3725.50 and falls considerably short-of the desired goal. The campaign lagged through out, and considering the 200 Freshmen who failed to subscribe to the first drive, the committee considers the result disappointing...
...strong gale kept the University baseball squad in the Cage on Soldiers Field yesterday, where, after a short talk by Coach Slattery, an hour of batting practice was held. C. S. Stillman 21, a catcher on last spring's squad was behind the bat for the first time this year, having hitherto been unable to play. He is now a regular member of the first squad...
...reading which one does is not of that kind. Good reading does not necessarily confine itself to the heavy uninteresting type of essay or literature which only the few care to peruse, but it does involve more than the ordinary subject matter such as is found in average short story magazines of the present day. The person who has never taught himself to hunt out, or con over the books of some of the mighty masters of fiction with their galaxy of robust old speech, and words and philosophy that men have come to venerate and love so much that...
Candidates for the positions of manager and assistant manager of the Freshman team win be called out tomorrow evening when they will report to B. Ulin '20, 28 Plympton Street, at 7 o'clock. This competition will be unusually short, lasting only two weeks, and will consist of selling tickets and doing miscellaneous work. The man chosen manager will make the trip with the team to Princeton and the assistant will be in charge of the debate with Yale at Sanders Theatre...
...proposed by the New York law teachers is more un-American than any act countenanced by the Socialist party. The motives of the modern crusaders of "Americanism" are unquestionably commendable in their patriotism, but their judgement, if the results were not likely to prove so dangerous, could be nothing short of ludicrous...