Word: slighted
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Though not the most formidable defending champion the League has seen, the varsity is rated a slight favorite in tomorrow's game. Its batting strength has improved in recent weeks, with Chet Boulris developing into a powerful slugger and Al Martin again showing the hitting style he had demonstrated on the spring trip...
...Clean Sleeve. A slight, hollow-eyed boy, he heeded the advice of older brother Coe (who died in 1917), managed to win an appointment to West Point. Two Honesdale teachers helped him cram for six weeks to get a head start, but the Point was like hitting another stone wall. Blunt-spoken upperclassmen advised him to give up, and it soon became apparent that he would always be a "clean-sleeve" cadet, without visible marks for leadership, scholarship or athletics. Once he made the baseball team wearing the catcher's "tools of ignorance," but that ended when he tore...
Only 9.5 per cent of Freshmen were arbitrarily assigned to a House--the lowest figure in four years. Last Fall nearly 18 per cent of the Sophomores entered a House to which they did not apply. The 66.1 per cent accepted by their top choice, however, represent a slight decline from last year's 67.4 per cent...
...this has not been done in the spirit of any drastic change. One dean, perhaps the move's strongest supporter, sees the modification merely as a slight improvement in teaching method. A member of the Administration, she would admit few defects in Wellesley to outsiders...
This same lack of friction carries over into Wellesley's intramural social life--the upperclass societies. To join, a girl must go to tea at each one; but any junior or senior who wants it is guaranteed acceptance, and the hierarchy, if any, is slight (Tau Zeta Epsilon--"Tizzy"--seems to be ranked a notch above the rest). Far from being an important part of the college's life, either intellectual or social (they were originally formed with specific purposes in mind, for example the Agora as a political science organization), they have become merely a pleasant place to take...