Word: slight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brown '96 having them pull up to Watertown bridge and back with short sprints ordered at intervals. On the way up, the crews changed shells and A. A. Campbell '30 changed places with L. W. Dickey '30. W. G. Saltonstall '28, who was unable to row owing to a slight injury, was replaced in the first boat by Geoffrey Platt '27, captain of last year's eight. J. de W. Hubbard '29 was still in the bow of the first shell where he has been rowing since the Navy-Pennsylvania race...
...Stadium question is a compromise, with concessions to two opposing parties. Critics of the proposed enlargement will find in the enclosure of the open end of the Stadium no alarming stimulus to huger crowds and to overemphasis of football beyond its proper sphere. There will be a slight gain in seating capacity to satisfy the advocates of progress along sport lines, and at all events the plan will insure a certain permanence of the status of the Stadium infinitely preferable to the old haphazard system of temporary stands...
...beginner's knowledge of another language. The survey of a representative section of the Senior class printed in this morning's CRIMSON shows that a large number of students get through Harvard without fully measuring up to this standard. About ten percent of the men interviewed had but a slight knowledge of any language; many more knew one but had forgotten their slight acquaintance with the other...
Even to the rest, however, the value of a slight knowledge of any language is at best small, especially when that knowledge is obtained under compulsion. The danger moreover, as today's survey shows of neither language being learned well is often great. As long as Harvard cannot require that two languages be mastered by her students, there is little value in her requiring that two be at least dabbled in. Opportunity will always remain for the aspirant to bilingural attainments--many others would prefer to concentrate on perfecting their knowledge of a single tongue...
Some of the views set forth can be best expressed in the terms of the reports compiled by the CRIMSON investigators. The following may be taken as typical of three important sections of opinion: "Can read French adequately and feels that his slight familiarity with the mechanics of the German language, while not sufficient to make reading easy, is worth while. Feels that even an elementary knowledge of a language adds not a little to one's culture...