Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...needless to dwell on it here. What we do advocate is that the college authorities, beginning with this year's final examinations, shall eliminate with the present chances for serious mistakes, by providing the blue books at the time of the examination. Let them, if they will, add a slight item to the term bill to cover the extra expense incurred, but let them by all means take this step to make the machinery of examinations run more smoothly and with more certainty...
When the Harvard team appeared on the field, Princeton men gave cheer after cheer, thus pleasantly evidencing their forgetfulness of the slight feud of two years ago, and welcoming the team to Princeton...
This afternoon at 4.30, the annual class races will be rowed over the usual course in the Charles River basin. The start is from the Longwood Bridge straight down to the Harvard Bridge, thence with a slight turn to the Union Boat Club, a few feet this side of which is the finish line. An extremely close contest is looked for, as the crews are to all appearances more evenly matched than last year...
First class. - When the first impression is weak and the revival of the experience is also weak, owing to slight attention, a very poor memory results...
After some slight deviations from his main theme, in which he explained the bowed clavier, Mr. Krehbiel gave a brief history and explanation of the pianoforte. This instrument was invented almost simultaneously, by three men of different nationalities, about 1715. It was the outcome of the impatience which was felt at the limitations of the other instruments, in which no variation of volume could be secured. After the lecture, Mr. Arthur Freidheim played on a Steinway Concert Grand a number of pieces by Chopin and Liszt, showing the remarkable superiority of the pianoforte over its predecessors, in the matter...