Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conducive to good digestion and good temper to eat one's breakfast hurriedly, under the impression that the hour of chapel is upon us, and then when the clock says 8.40 have the hands set carefully back to 8.31. We would not be understood as taking offence at the slight put upon Father Time, but we would like to see the old gentleman regulated a little earlier in the morning...
...meeting held in the Boston Latin School a few days ago in the interests of education, and particularly of co-operation between preparatory schools and colleges, Presidents Porter and Eliot made addresses. The Herald's reviews of these addresses are reprinted below, but with slight omissions...
...electives of those whose work it affected. An equal amount of frankness was displayed in wholly ignoring the announcements of the elective pamphlet concerning the composition courses. The cause which was given for this action is the same as that which has been assigned for many other slight idiosyncrasies of our famous university. It is the cause of the signal failure of the library to enlighten our minds after sunset; the cause which has occasioned those ever recurring topics of conversation, the pumps, the state of the yard, the onslaught of barbaric muckerism and their like. It is simply...
...should slight this important subject. The decisions of important questions, and even the fate of the plan of conference, depend on the life and ability of the committee for this year. Let every one vote intelligently and thereby gain success. Other colleges are watching our conference. Let it be worthy of imitation...
...been expelled, and at whose gates no flaming sword checks the wanderer, save, it may be, that metaphorical cutlass, the "11 o'clock law," - each and all of these we greet with renewed respect and affection, and then look about us to ascertain the cause for the slight feeling of vacuity that we, as a student body, experience. One thing, - one little thing we lack to make our surroundings complete...