Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that it has been next to godliness. A way of escape from the difficulty seems fortunately to present itself in the Carey Building. Before the demand becomes too pressing might not the baths there be thrown open to general use? True, they would not prove wholly adequate, but better slight than total inadequacy. Students will realize that they are making the best of a bad matter, and will wait patiently for the good that is in store for them when the Gymnasium is completed; while without the Carey baths they will become forcibly and justly impatient...
Gonterman tried to run around the end again but Thayer caught him before he had gained any distance. Brewer made a slight gain through right tackle, and Fairchild followed him with a gain of several yards through the hole which Hart made...
...second eleven began at once to direct all plays against Jaffray, and several slight gains were made, although Jaffray worked hard. Newell did some good work in breaking up the interference...
BOSTON, June 19. - Local forecast for New England, Thursday: Slight change in temperature; variable winds...
...colleges seem to have made no attempt to obviate the difficulties in the way of accepting the intercollegiate challenge sent them, but to have refused this without due reluctance, and to have made an entirely arbitrary selection of Harvard and Yale. In so doing they are guilty of a slight to the other colleges of the intercollegiate association, in which Harvard would, by her acceptance, silently acquiesce. It would be the more ungracious of her, since she did not in the games this year prove herself second best. Oxford and Cambridge, in replying to the intercollegiate challenge by a narrowed...