Word: swift
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following men have been selected to represent the University Gun Club in the annual shoot with Yale this afternoon and in the intercollegiate shoot tomorrow morning, both meets at the Yale traps: C. E. Benson '15, R. Bullock '15, H. Cutting '13, D. Lockwood '13 (captain), and C. B. Swift...
...Washburn '15 defeated R. H. Kettell '14, 6-1, 6-2; J. S. Pfaffman '16 defeated W. W. Whitney '16, 6-3, 6-1; T. Dean '16 defeated E. P. Coleman, Jr., '14, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4; H. S. McKee '13 defeated H. Swift '15, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3; E. H. Heminway '15 defeated S. J. Ranch 1L., 6-1, 6-2; E. A. Manning '16 defeated W. Campbell '16, 7-5, 8-6; M. B. Auten 1G.B. defeated P. Winsor '15 by default; A. M. Reed '16 defeated C. D. McDuffie '16 by default...
...Caner, of St. Mark's, 1-6, 6-3, 6-0, after an unsteady start, and A. S. Peabody, of Malden High defeated J. A. Gee, of Exeter, 6-4, 3-6, 8-6. Herd usually plays a slashing game, somewhat after the style of McLoughlin, with very swift service. He placed poorly at the start yesterday, however, and his unsteadiness cost him the first set with Caner, who was placing very well. Caner soon lost his steadiness, however, while Herd got control of himself and placed his drives much more effectively...
...Owen Johnson of Yale was pressagent for Mr. Dink Stover at Lawrenceville; Mr. Stover is now taking a swift trip through Mr. Johnson's alma mater, and is the foil for caustic arraignment of undergraduate ignorance. It was so heated that many gentlemen of college extraction took exception to it, and recently the "Sun" interviewed him. Mr. Johnson reiterated wildly and at some length that he was right; that the general ignorance and utter lack of acquaintance with culture of the average American undergraduate was almost tragic. He waved his arms, and said he believed, apropos of the time-honored...
...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...