Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...objections raised then are now invalid. Since that time a well-organized and responsible electric light company has established itself in Cambridge, and electric lights have almost entirely superseded gas in the various stores around the college. The cost of putting electric lights in the library would be comparatively slight-in fact, insignificant in comparison to what it would have cost three years ago. We have heard that the corporation do not wish to put electric lights in the library until they have money enough to light the yard and law school library at the same time. There...
...University Catalogue, which will appear today, contains few changes from last year that are worthy of notice. Itgives, however, indications of growth and progress which augur well for Harvard. Not only has the number of students increased in all the departments, (with the exception of a slight decrease in the Veterinary School); but our Scientific School has made a wonderful gain. Under the shadow of Technology, it is difficult to maintain an institution of this character. We are not only holding our own but actually progressing. This impetus can only be accounted for by the recent introduction of new courses...
...which this year is to begin on Sunday, June 9th. It was voted that hereafter all architects in the junior and senior years at the School of Mines shall be obliged to study plumbing and masonry at the New York trade schools, and money for such instruction was appropriated. Slight changes were also made in the chemical and mining engineering courses...
...been no visible improvement in its condition during the storm of the last few days. As there is every reason to believe that we have not yet seen the last of winter and that this week's experience may be duplicated in the near future, I trust that my slight suggestion, or rather intimation as to its desirability, may not fall on barren ground...
...Tufts College catalogue for 1888-89 will be issued today. The faculty remains unchanged from last year. The students number 139, which is a slight increase. The range of electives is somewhat enlarged. Those who take modern languages in place of Greek have a choice of electives the first year. The regulars are not permitted to elect any of their studies until the second year. The sophomores have three, the juniors nine, and the seniors ten hours of elective work per week. In all there are fourteen elective courses...