Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prospects of victory for the Freshmen are very slight, for Andover has a well-balanced team, while 1921 must rely almost entirely on two men, L. H. Rand and E. C. Mott-Smith. In the 200-yard four-man relay, Andover is said to average 27 4-5 seconds, which is much better time than the Freshmen can hope to make. The event which the 1921 team seems likely to win is the 50-yard dash...
...through with attempting to sink transports. If the present program or military efficiency is to be carried out, these university adjuncts must be kept in working condition. The difference between the amount of coal necessary to heat the buildings used for military purposes and the entire college is so slight as to make its saving negligible. The radio schools, the aero schools, the engineering schools and the R. O. T. C. must be continued, and the regular college functions may as well go along with them...
...institutions can, of course, be closed, and the students, dismissed. But unless this is done for a considerable length of this the saving would be slight. The work for the Government must be continued, and that involves keeping open laboratories and libraries, the plant must be kept from destruction; the students must live somewhere and dormitories are approximately as cheap a method of keeping them warm as could be found. Moreover, it has been calculated, that the cost in rule of having the students travel to their homes would equal that of keeping them warm in college dormitories...
Although we may be slow in securing rifles and supplies, yet out contribution in funds has not been slight. To partially remedy the lack of men with complete training, equipment and accessories, we have furnished certain other "sinews of war." In ten months the Government has spent seven billion dollars, of which one half has been loaned to the Allies. To have used is no small aid to the nations struggling against Germany. Without investigations, censure, or even criticism valuable progress has been made...
...says in his book: "The Harvard Overseers, in fact, are, above all, men of conspicuous social standing; the proportion of intellectuals among them is slight, and many regret it. This merely expresses the fact that the dominant concerns of the graduate body are not of the intellectual order. They deeply love thier University, interest themselves in its prosperity, provide for its material support with the utmost generosity; but in the memories of youth which attach them to it the intellectual interest plays only a part that is effaced...