Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even if the Council has voted the subject down for the moment, the slight, if highly commendable, action it did take to cooperate with the Houses indicates that the problem is a very real one and therefore will, as the Houses become increasingly important, crop up again. When it does the Council should not simply meet it by such stop-gap measures as it took last night but must take the bull by the horns and make real provision through constitutional means...
...large number of Eli's men at the recent Junior Prom at Vassar. Possibly the reason for such a large attendance of rivals lies in Harvard's apparently scornful attitude toward marriage and its study. We should also like to point out that there is more than a slight difference between Hygiene lectures for Freshmen given by a college physician, and lectures for the entire college given by eminent specialists and psychologists on a subject which is still very popular among a great many people as marriage statistics will prove...
Edward F. Prichard 2L showed student opposition as well as faculty to be acute, declaring that now a teacher can be dismissed for any slight variation from the "beaten path of mumbo-jumbo that is too often the bane of our educational system...
...chief claim to fame was he was homosexual. Yet on the same page was listed a book (but passed with scant attention) called Fifty Million Brothers by Reader's Digest's blue-pencil genius, Charles W. Ferguson. As a "Fergie" fan, I protest, not only at your slight to Fergie's book but your unfailing and sedulous attention to books with perversion themes...
Since the whole period of the School is covered here, there are certain of the earlier ones which may seem rather slight. But most are highly skilled landscapes in miniature, wide panoramas of English country or coast. Among these the Boston Museum's "Dover" of Turner is pre-eminent...