Word: slight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other professors and instructors in college. It has always been urged against large colleges that in them the number of students is so great that close social intercourse between the men and their instructors is impossible. That this is in a great measure true, is evident from the very slight acquaintance which men in our own college have with their instructor. This is a fact greatly to be deplored; for it is undoubtedly a great deprivation to the men to be unacquainted with their instructors and for the instructor to know but slightly the men they meet two or three...
...poor X, this is only the beginning. As time goes on, many men whom he had formerly considered his friends slight him. He begins to feel a sense of lonesomeness...
...whatever in finding any book he wants. But before an hour has passed whoever wants a book must search every shelf, table and corner of the reading-room before he can be sure that the book he wants is not in use. If each man should take the very slight trouble necessary, and replace the book in its proper place after using, he would save an infinite amount of annoyance and trouble to other men and would benefit himself as well. For if the idea once gets footway that every man is expected to replace books when he is through...
...Ordinary people saw a magnificent exhibition of cultivated strength and beautiful daring, with very few and very slight casualities, except in a single instance; they saw a dash and courage and enthusiasm that made one think better of the mortal part of human nature; and in the end a group of eager, flushed, panting young men, exhausted somewhat, of course, with such tremendous physical effort, but bright of eye, clear of voice, and as fine to look upon, in spite of awkward garb, as any heroic figures of triumphant Greek athletes...
...term was held at Dr. McCosh's parlors Wednesday night, where Mr. Johnson, who has the mental science fellowship, read a paper on some phases of the problem of knowledge, which received the most favorable criticism from all present. It is understood that Dr. McCosh contemplates a slight change in the management of these meetings so they will be more under the undergraduates charge. They have been such a wonderful success managed as they are, however, that but few wish to run the risk of making any charge whatever...