Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...difficult to see how this plan can be called "a cautious experiment." A sudden reversal of the traditions of the college, even though the backward movement were very slight at first could be no mere experiment. It would be a step on an entirely new road, and one which it would be almost impossible to retrace. It would also inaugurate a new and most dangerous policy, for the college is now asked for the first time to cut off a part of its best education to regain time which has been worse than wasted in the lower schools, while there...
...Harvard Union deserves more attention than it gets. It is, as we have said time and again, one of the few really beneficial societies which the undergraduates have organized. It deals with a part of the education of a student which is developed at Harvard only to a slight extent, but which in neighboring colleges is made much of. Unfortunately until this year the Union was not prosperous; it was not popular; but lately a little energetic management has drawn better audiences and brought out more skillful debates. It is decidedly in the interest of the college for as many...
...used a great deal, enough surely to warrant keeping them in good repair. We have heard, however, numerous complaints about them. The pins are badly shattered, and the balls, such as they are, are too few to go around when all the alleys are in use. At a slight expense the alleys could be greatly improved, much to the delight of the many bowlers in college...
...Plumb; "Retrospect," by J. R. G.; "Foot Ball-Detail of Defensive Play," by Waiter Camp. This article, which is the complement to another article by the same author, which appeared last month; is of interest to college men. The statemens are, however, extremely general and convey but a slight amount of information. The author gives some idea of the duties of the players in defensive play but very little of the action of the team...
...view of the small number of recitations on Saturday and the great number of men who would be enabled to spend their New Year's Day at home by a slight change in the time of registration, would it not be a good plan to circulate a petition for changing the time of registration from January 3 to January 5, 1891? Many men would thus be enabled to spend their New Year's Day in peace instead of rushing off before it is half over...