Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Your article makes a slight mistake as to the cost of these shore uniforms which I find on consulting the treasurers' books for last year, was $92.50, which I should think was fully equal to the average yearly cost, instead...
...between the bouts. But with plenty of entries in the two events, light-weight and feather-weight sparring, the time between bouts would be sufficient, if we may take the Tech. games as a criterion. There the hardest hitting and fighting occurred each time in the final rounds. The slight drawbacks to the change are more than counterbalanced by the advantages...
...Hart. In order to make up for lost time, the lectures have been condensed, and it is occasionally necessary to omit the discussion of some important question. As abridgment of this course is unfortunately unavoidable, every available minute should be seized upon to make this abridgment as slight as possible. Owing to the size of the class, however, which consists of over one hundred men, the instructor is obliged to spend valuable time in marking the absent, and is rarely able to begin the lecture until ten or twelve minutes past the hour. We, therefore, urgently recommend that a monitor...
...would the fresh freshman like it if he, entering a public building, filled with a large number of people, and committing a slight breach of etiquette through ignorance, should be saluted by the audience with a lively stamping. Feelings such as he would doubtless experience in such a situation must have been experienced yesterday noon, by the party of middle aged ladies and gentlemen who visited Memorial Hall at the lunch hour. And all because the gentlemen of the party were ignorant of the rules of the hall, and did not remove their hats. The stamping which greeted them...
...very popular, and we can see no objections which the college authorities could raise against a plan which would benefit such a large number of students,-it is estimated that at least fifty per cent. of Harvard graduates become lawyers,-and the expense of which would be so slight; for it would only be necessary to engage some expert in Boston to come out here and deliver two or three lectures a week...