Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...games with Uxbridge have advanced but two moves on each side since our last number. The Harvard and Boston Chess Clubs began a game last Friday evening, and stopped playing after the 26th move. Harvard had gained a pawn, and had a slight advantage in position. The game will be finished soon...
...M.EDITORS OF THE MAGENTA:- I AM a graduate of Harvard, deeply interested in boating, and have always felt a cordial sympathy with all boating-men at Cambridge; but I am also a member of the Union Boat Club, and would humbly beg for myself and other fellow-members a slight degree of consideration...
...their humbler namesakes are, they float aimlessly among the rich flowers; alighting here on one of Thackeray's bright novels; pausing there a moment to sip the sweetness of Wordsworth's poems; attracted yonder by the flashing pages of Charles Reade. They seek only the pleasures of literature, and slight observation will convince us that they delight in these only when easily obtained. Where grow the more sober plants of history and biography their fancy seldom leads them. The rich stores of Macaulay and Prescott lie too deep for their shallow taste. The sole care of these literary butterflies...
...have but two alternatives, - to eat what is set before them, or go hungry. We see no reason why we cannot have two kinds of meat as well as one, for our meat is purchased in such large quantities that the difference in expense, if any, would be very slight, and the advantage of having every one suited would very probably be gained...
This could be issued as complementary to the list of electives, or could supersede it. If, however, the expense would be an objection, the pamphlet could be put on sale at the bookstores, and we hardly think that the instructors would object to the very slight trouble of preparing such accounts. Last year, in two instances, instructors took the trouble to explain their courses to all who thought of electing them. This indicates that Faculty and students agree in this, that more information is needed in regard to electives, and it also shows that there is a willingness...