Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...owing to the more general acquaintance with French among our students, or the attractiveness of Moliere, or the excellence of the rendering by the professor, it cannot be said; but it was greatly to the credit of the College that the French readings were so well attended. Although the slight knowledge of Spanish among our students may be alleged as an excuse, yet I am sure that had the easiness of the tongue and the genius and erudition of the translator been known to the many, the hall would have been crowded. To allow ignorance of Spanish to debar...
...writer has been a little hasty in stating that five years' experience has shown the failure of "straight away" racing in America. There is hardly enough to be gained by the slight excitement of seeing the start to compensate for the artificiality of a buoyed course, which he thinks necessary for the safety of a "turning race." This mode of racing is inconsistent with the rest of the idea. On the same ground that the race should not be a show, but an honorable struggle for victory, the interest, being undisturbed by "side-shows," should also be concentrated...
...remove the slight misunderstanding under which the Yale papers seem to be laboring, we will state briefly the present condition of affairs in regard to the arrangements for the next Yale-Harvard base-ball match. The first game will be played in New Haven, the second in Cambridge, and the third in Springfield. The misunderstanding which caused the Record to speak of us in terms more forcible than polite resulted from the fact that the two Nines in fixing the time for the match found difficulty in finding three days which would be equally convenient for both sides, and also...
...only to the observing eye of those whose souls are attuned to the spirit of the composition, and whose memories yet retain the exhilarating tone of the Dean's afternoon receptions. The delightful little essay on Censure Marks becomes almost poetical in its phraseology, and but for a few slight trips in metre and a superfluous line we might be deceived into reading it as a sonnet. The directness and conciseness of the writing cannot be too much praised, though we could wish that the word shall might give way to the gentle "may" or to the potential and insinuating...
...their columns by the heading, "Harvard University Notes." Portions of these "notes" are copied directly from the brevity columns of the College papers, and in as much as they are simple statements of College events, are correct, but the remaining are either creations of a fertile brain or slight events wrought up in such a marvellous manner as to show that the imagination of the writer was drawn upon to a dangerous extent...