Word: slighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finds that he has received $9.80 worth of food for only $8.50. But just as he is at the peak of pleasure over this triumph, a more talented friend suggests that if he had also eaten all breakfasts in the House, he could have done so at the slight additional cost of seventy cents, for a flat $10.50 charge is made to those who eat twenty one meals per week in the House...
Yale's 1929 eleven will trot out on to the Stadium turf this afternoon a slight favorite over Captain Barrett's Crimson-jerseyed gridiron cohorts. The basis for the Eli's supposed superiority is rather a comparison of previous records than any firm conviction among Yale rooters that the New Haven contingent is actually much stronger than the Cambridge outfit...
...certain however that, after Saturday's performance, Harvard needs a power play which it can use when near the enemy goal line. It is possible that several slight changes will be made in the semi-kick formation which the Crimson has used in its last few games in order to provide Coach Horween's men with a play that will click at the critical moment...
...began in a voice the color of his skin to sing "I Got a Home on a Rock, Don' You See." The singer was not Roland Hayes, although for years Hayes has been the only Negro to sell out a hall of Carnegie's size. Hayes is slight, frail-appearing. He sings spirituals artfully, in a high voice that is often reedy. The Negro who sang last week in Manhattan was as tall as Basso Feodor Chaliapin and brawnier. His voice was big and mellow. He sang simply. He was Paul Robeson, athlete-actor-baritone. Last week...
...possible lineup change was hinted at yesterday when Harding was seen at left end. Douglas was not at practice because of slight injuries sustained last Saturday but it is rumored that when he returns Harding will have his job. The remainder of the team was the same as that which faced the Wolverines and the chances are that it will stay that way for the last two games. Mays and White are working out daily with the first team and although neither will be in the starting eleven, both will be kept on the side-lines as a constant threat...