Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college, we showed the increase in the attention which had been given to the studies for the graduate school. While this increase of graduate study has the ascendancy, there are still important changes in the courses open to the undergraduate members of the college - changes which, though slight in themselves, are indicative of significant tendencies in the University. We refer to the introduction this year of two new courses. one in the plays of Shakspare and the other in the condition of the workingmen. Amid all the specializing and minute analysis to which so much of the work...
...third annual open meeting of the Harvard Cycling Association was held on Holmes Field Saturday afternoon. Although a slight breeze, which freshened at times, blew down the home stretch, the weather was almost perfect for fast riding. The energy and persistence with which the officers of the association have worked to make this meeting a success deserved the presence of a much larger crowd. The number of competitors and trainers, as it appeared, made up the bulk of the attendance. The failure of the appearance of Banker and Hess of the Manhattan Athletic Club was quite a disappointment as both...
...Sunday Meditation", is very slight. The sonnet, "Christ Church" is worthy of very high praise for the forceful simplicity and great repose of its style...
...what it is proposed to do with the present fund which is being collected (slowly to be sure) for the new reading room. We understood that one of the objects of having a new reading room was to have some hall disconnected, or rather connected by a slight passage way, with the present Library, in order that it might be lighted in the evening without danger of fire to the Library itself. Under the proposed scheme the reading room, we understand, would be an integral part of the whole library building and until the city of Cambridge allows electric light...
There are two "Aspects of Walt Whitman," each slight, but each well written and interesting...