Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That this state of affairs may have a devitalizing effect on the liberal arts by driving sensitive men into science and economics courses which have not yet become fashionable for women, is obvious. Many minds for which literature and allied subjects have at first only a slight appeal, are later, drawn thereto, after preliminary examination, with compelling force and all these potential adherents are repelled at the outset, the loss to the beaux arts is quite apparent...
...Stevens '25, and Churchill Satterlee's '25, who were seriously injured in an automobile accident Saturday night at Holyoke when their machine over turned, had shown a slight improvement when a CRIMSON reporter telephoned the hospital last night...
...General, was defeated by five votes. In 1921 Miss Jenn made a report as Historian General to the Continental Congress. In this report she made a list of "notable Presidents," including the names of Washington, Lincoln, Harding. She did not mention Woodrow Wilson. Southern delegates took offense at this slight to the War President. Mrs. Franklin Cain, of South Carolina, was elected by a vote...
Died. Brigadier General Horatio Gates Gibson, 97,"oldest living West Pointer"; in Washington. He entered just as Ulysses S. Grant graduated. Due to his slight stature, he was nicknamed "Agnes"?an appellation which clung to him through life. When he was a lieutenant at the battle of Fredericksburg, his sword was cut from his side by a shell; at the end of the Civil War he was a captain in the regulars. A nonagenarian at his daughter's house in Washington, he smoked from six to ten cigars daily...
Booth Tarkington's--"Monsieur Beaucaire" has been revived in London and is now playing at the Strand Theatre with Gerald Lawrence in the title role. The play is especially well-received by old-timere with whom it has long been a favorite. Although this slight but exquisite story was published twenty-five years ago and has seen a complee revolution in literary styles, Mr. Tarkington's publishers, Doubleday, Page & Company, report that it continues to be one of the most popular of his books and seems to remain uninfluenced by time and literary fashions...