Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...size of the squad was somewhat reduced because of minor injuries suffered last Saturday in the Dartmouth game by several members of the team and a recurrence of chronic absenteeism. Gus Seamans, first-string halfback, who did not go with the team to Dartmouth because of two injured knees, was at practice today and will be available for Saturday's game with M.I.T...
Licking its minor wounds with grim satisfaction, the Varsity football team turned its eyes yesterday from the rugged Holy Cross game aftermath to the arrival Saturday of a good Rutgers team. Aside from bumps and bruises, no member of the squad is ailing, and if there are no practice injuries this week, the Crimson will be at full strength for the Scarlet...
...Nerves. Author Nicolson does not introduce the comic-opera aspects of the Peace Congress for laughs, but to show the powerful accumulative effect of minor irritations on men who are tired and overburdened. Inevitably, he argues, in any great conference, personal characteristics exercise a growing influence. Delegates become filled with personal rancors, and follow their prejudices into side issues. And as the nerve-racking routine stretches into months of inconclusiveness, a weariness, an urge to be done and go home, settles over the conference table...
Most graduates care little whether they appear as an A.B. or S.B. on the Commencement program, but minor bitternesses in addition to the absurdity of the present requirements make a revision sufficiently urgent. The original faculty committee appointed by President Conant to investigate the matter was aware of the inconsistencies but was unable to agree on a remedy. Although the dual degrees and the varying admission requirements were then treated as a single problem, the suggestion has been well made that there are actually...
Boston Symphony--Concerts tomorrow night, Friday afternoon, and Saturday evening feature Handel's D minor Concerto Grosso, a Prokovieff ballet suite ("Chout"), and the Sibelius first symphony, Concertmaster Richard Burgin conducts this week...