Word: slighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Casualty in the Hoover medicine-ball game:* William Hard, slight punditical newsman. Stopping a powerful throw, he slipped, sprained his ankle, needed crutches. "Hard luck," said the other players...
...continues to insist, chiefly require that members of any clergy before officiating must present themselves at a registry office and subscribe their names and addresses. The Protestant clergy complied with these laws from the first, are officiating unmolested. The Catholics, deeming any obeisance to the existing civil power, however slight, incompatible with conscience, continue to regard themselves as persecuted...
...Harvard forces will be considerably strengthened since the St. John's College game by the return of Captain H. M. Hartnett '30 who was injured in the Dartmouth match. So far this season the records of the two teams are about equal with a slight advantage on the side of Syracuse. However, with the rapidly increasing interest which is being taken in the sport at Harvard the team should give a good account of itself...
...result of the Make-up Examinations, 23 men have received Dean's List standing. Together with the number which received B averages at Mid-years this makes a total of 567 men or 17.5 percent of the undergraduates, that have attained Dean's List ranking. This is a slight decrease when compared with 17.6 percent of the students making Dean's List grades last year...
...your issue of April 22, under the heading "Chicago Fuss" you slight, if only in a footnote, the other most distinguished of the famous brothers, Dr. Otto L. Schmidt. According to many, Otto is the most distinguished. A noted physician (Chicago, Wurzburg and Vienna), consulting physician to several large hospitals in Chicago, he has been for many years president of the Chicago Historical Society, president of the Inland Yachting Association, but, more important than these, is one of the greatest philanthropists in the country. Quietly he directs amounts, great and small, into channels where the need is most. The money...