Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Captain Poe is still confined to his room and is now suffering from a slight fever...
...patronized. We consider that the change in the proportion of the net profits, which will be devoted to dividends, is advisable. It is not right that a business of such large and increasing proportions, should be obliged o work on a capital unnecessarily restricted. It may make a slight deduction fro each man's dividend, but no one ough complain. It will be observed that the business of this year is over twenty five hundred dollars greater than for the corresponding period last year, a fact which is due to more efficient superintendence, and a competent man in charge...
...editorials deal with athletics and the relation of collegiate to graduate study, A slight change in the makeup of the number is noticed in the heading of the right hand pages which are now inscribed with the title of the article appearing below instead of bearing the name of the magazine...
...introductory adagio, as also the adagio third movement, might have seemed to some tastes a little exaggerated, but altogether the performance was by far the most satisfactory that has been heard here within recent years. The Lohengrin prelude showed the conductor in his element. Although there was a slight lack of precision among the violins in the extreme high passages with which the number begins and ends, yet as a whole the effort was inspiring, and to judge from the applause it had the prelude was the most popular number of the evening. The two Saint-Saens selections were very...
...short and very slight stories, entitled "Letter Writing" and "The Force of Circumstances," written by A. W. Weysse and C. T. Page, respectively, together with the anonymous account of "A Lamp Dicker," make up the prose of the number. The story of the "Lamp Dicker" shows keen appreciation of a character common enough in college and out of it, and contains several very felicitous phrases...