Word: slight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well enough to show that we have more students than any other college, that we have the ablest professors, the finest museums, and the largest library; but if we do not employ these advantages, our boast is vain. We have all heard time and time again of the slight mental strength gained, by passively taking our facts and ideas through the handy medium of a lecture. As far as real drill goes, listening to lectures affects our minds about as watching other men pull chest weights affects our bodies. As the office of the director of the gymnasium...
...objectionable. The mere fact that the subject is being agitated is not in the least proof that the practice is universal, or even generally prevalent here. The members of the committee would be the first to deny the truth of such an inference. The practice exists - to a comparatively slight extent, to be sure - but still it exist; and as long as that is the case, it should be the aim of every true Harvard man to find some remedy which will remove it. It is absurd to shut our eyes to the evil because we believe it is less...
...regular team is now in practice, but "scrub" teams are constantly at work. The members of Yale's best team for a tug-of-war have all left college, and the chances of an altogether new team winning this difficult event are very slight...
...regular work; the latter lives for the moment only, and, when at leisure, is also literally idle. How to prevent leisure from being pure idleness is no easy problem for young men to solve. The importance and difficulty of its solution give to Mr. Lodge's discourse no slight interest and value...
...Boylston, among the evening entertainments of the week. The custom, into which so many of our college societies have fallen, of inviting one or more lecturers to Cambridge to address them each year, is extremely suggestive of the interest that is taken in special branches, and pays no slight tribute to the much talked of elective system. The cordiality with which all the societies have extended to the members of the college at large the privilege of attendance deserves no less commendation than this enterprise in giving, often at considerable expense, the different lectures. We believe that this...