Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heartless action of a New Jersey Borough Council, Princeton has suffered a loss which her sons must feel very keenly. For years past it has been the undergraduate custom to smoke in both the local moving picture houses during the progress of the evening's entertainment. This seems a slight thing, and is a measure which has often been urged by patrons of the more popular resorts along Washington Street in Boston. When in addition it is something which has been done by one's forbears time out of mind, or at least since the invention of the cinema...
...yards dashes, the Crimson and the Yale Freshmen are fairly evenly matched. Were Secrist in top form the same might be said of the 440-yards event, but a recent leg injury left him with a slight limp. Haggerty looks like a winner in the half and mile events. The hurdles should go to Yale. The shotput is the strongest Crimson event, with Miller, Kilgour, and Lundell competing for the Freshmen...
...these days to call a poet clean is no slight compliment. Mr. Auslander without raising a moment's suspicion of a didactic purpose, never gravitates to the immoral as so many poets do on occasion. He speaks the poetry that is in him, a poetry pure and high...
...Only Slight Hope of Recovery...
...taken to his room in Randolph where he was treated by Dr. Richards and Mr. John Anderson, the University masseur. At a late hour last night there was still some doubt as to the seriousness of his injury. The possibility of his competing in the Yale meet are extremely slight although the coaches have not yet given up hope of his running against the Elis on Saturday. At all events, it seems probable that he will have recovered in time to compete in the Intercollegiates on May 30 and 31, and in the Olympic Trials on June...