Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...social way. There are very few times when anything like a genuine spirit of class attachment exists to make men feel that the ties of classmateship are something more than a mere name. The few class meetings which are held during the college course help in a slight way to promote this feeling of attachment to the class and a realization of what a class really means and stands for; but there is hardly anything which knits a class together more firmly than the class dinners. The junior dinner is always a good beginning and the senior dinner, coming...
...General Whittier on Beacon Street. As the house now stands it will hardly suit the needs of the club, so plans have been drawn to make the house into a good club-house. The alterations will not have to be very extensive and the expense will be but slight; in fact the main object of the alterations will be to provide cooking and dining arrangements such as the club will need. If everything goes as is expected, the club will be settled in its new Beacon Street quarters some time during the coming September...
...seems it would be eminently proper for the management to expend some money on those seats and put up backs so as to make them as comfortable as the seats in the other sections, the price being the same and certainly sufficiently large to justify this slight improvement...
...take away no small stimulus to general exercise. This year, moreover, the nines have been practising with the prospect of being able to play each other in an organized series for some little sign of honor. It falls naturally to the place of the 'varsity management to undertake the slight duty of organizing the series and awarding the palm of victory, whatever it may be; and certainly it would be deeply regretted if the management this year neglected to see that the scrub nines had their set of matches...
...gymnasium should be open during the evening, so that at least the baths could be used. The refreshment of a cool bath after a hot day's work would do a great deal to ease the trials of the examination period. There seems, moreover, to be not a slight call for the baths. There is no knowing, of course, how much the baths would actually be used, but it certainly seems worth while to throw the gymnasium open for the rest of the evenings this week to see if the demand is not really a serious...