Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Captain Dexter did not play in the regular baseball practice yesterday afternoon. On Wednesday evening he was taken sick with a slight case of tonsilitis, which kept him home all day yesterday. At present it is doubtful whether he will be able to play in the Princeton game tomorrow...
...have them in the "Iliad," to show the spirit of the Homeric Age. All indications prove that the "Iliad" was considerably expurgated, whereas the "Odyssey" underwent a less stringent process of revision. Although all the early myths point to many barbarous practices among the ancient Greeks, we see slight traces of them in the "Iliad." The poem is practically free from pictures of human sacrifice or torture, whereas in the "Odyssey" we have one situation very nearly approaching torture...
...Slight injuries will keep two of Harvard's regulars, Leonard and Briggs, on the bench today. Leonard's tendon, which he strained in the Army game last Saturday, is coming along nicely, but still bothers him a little. Briggs has been given a lay-off after the strenuous week in the South, but will be back in the game again within a few days. Waters will play first and Pritchett third...
...work was very satisfactory, and both crews rowed smoothly. Lunt was in excellent form and finished out his stroke vigorously. On the first crew, during the trip down-stream, there was a slight tendency to be too slow on the recovery, but on the row back to the boathouse this was improved...
With the exception of J. Richardson, Jr., '08, who was not at number 5, the University crew rowed in the same order as last week. Richardson was absent on account of a slight injury to one of his knees, which he suffered in a hockey match on Sunday. He is expected to be in condition again next week. R. M. Faulkner '09, who was number 7, on the Freshman crew last year, rowed in his place. Coach Wray coxswained both the University and second eights...