Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...account of its importance and a slight change made since yesterday, we are requested to reprint this notice...
...Cornell sophomores upon the freshmen of that college. It has always been a custom at Cornell for the sophs to prevent the freshmen from holding their annual banquet. Force has been tried hitherto, and as a result men have been suspended. A week ago the freshmen had caused a slight interruption to the '86 feast, and the latter class determined on revenge. A class meeting was held and a committee given full powers to outwith the freshmen. '86 determined to be sharp and use their wits...
...take the lead in upholding principles or repelling foreign enemies. How much better it would have been for all concerned if twenty-three years ago the men who were preparing to take the field from Harvard and, in fact, from all parts of the country had even some slight knowledge of their new business. A regular course including the leading principles of this most interesting and fascinating science of war if given by the college or some society each winter would draw considerable audiences. The plan is not a difficult one to accomplish. Quite a number of well educated officers...
...thought for them when the old doctor comes in sight, trying to steal unseen through some open space. Applause and shouting bring the doctor to a stop. The bright, strong face lights up with a happy smile, the white head bows to the youthful top-knots, and the slight, straight figure, bearing very easily the weight of seventy-five long years, tries to steal away again. But it won't do. The boys must have a speech, and the doctor submits. How he brightens and sparkles! No dry remarks on anatomical subjects, no learned dissertation on medical principles. Only...
...their methods and morals would suffer from the little contact they have with men who make ball-playing a business? It might be well for the faculty to turn its attention a little more closely to some other aspects of the moral training of Harvard College and let such slight matters as professionalism take care of themselves. The third resolution is one of the most objectionable. It reads...