Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University Overseers are men of conspicuous social standing, but the proportion of intellectuals among them in slight. This statement is made by Professor Maurice Caullery of the Sorbonner in a book dealing with the universities and scientific life of the United States...
This contest will be fought as keenly as any formal game, even though the rewards of victory are slight. Those men who have been practising for a month have shown that team-play and spirit can be developed without the incentive of a definite rival to be beaten. Interest in the sport for itself has made the seven eager to practice. So, too, it welcomes the opportunity to meet the sailors. The debut of the informals in the Arena may lack the importance of a formal game, but not the rivalry...
...Registers is the inclusion of a list of the members of the classes of 1918, 1919 and 1920 in service, with their rank and addresses. The difficulty of compiling these names was much greater than was at first anticipated, but every man in regard to whom information, however slight, was obtainable has been placed on the records...
...justified the trouble. By one such example, however, it is possible to inculcate especially in those affected some notion that they are citizens of a nation in arms. Few of us have really felt the "pinch of war," yet if we show ourselves willing to undergo a slight trouble for the sake of a principle most irrefutably correct, we begin to see our position. Everyone who is compelled to check waste on a large scale will voluntarily be more careful in small matters. Not only because of actual gain, but also because of the principle involved, vote for a change...
...netted the puck from a scrimmage in front of the cage, and two minutes later W. W. Rice '18 tallied on a short shot from the side. The Navy then made their only goal, when Cann scored. For the remained of the period of the informals maintained a slight advantage...