Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jumper as Kuehn is nursing an injured ankle and the other Harvard jumpers cannot measure up to I.C.4A competition. At the last moment Dean, who was entered in the shot put, was stricken from the list to make way for Bennett in the pole vault. Pescosolido had only a slight edge over his running mate, Porter, in the dash selections...
...arisen that the University Library improve its system for the return of overnight books. That the present time for returning them, from quarter of nine to nine in the morning, is so limited as to cause inconvenience is obvious. Certainly in the interests of extending the library facilities the slight effort necessary to remedy this defect will be well repaid...
With the razor edge of rivalry whetted by several weeks of intense Competition, Crimson and Eli are slated to lead the field on the board track this evening at the Garden in their first meeting indoors in track history. Harvard, although a slight favorite, can easily be upset by a few overturns in the evening's racing. With seven other college listed in Class A, there is a strong likelihood that any prediction many prove false...
However, there may be a slight harm in this procedure. I am thinking of the earnest student who copies the lectures word for word and before finals underscores the statements in red ink, that they may suppose this is scholasticism and hand in to their professors similar regurgitations. Anyone with any imagination can see where this would end. Even the professors would in time take exception to it. Cambridge, February 17. (Name withheld by request...
...would suggest, however, one slight remedy for this unavailability of books. The library's only method of calling in books from officers of the University is by means of a postal card. Books called for by students have been reported out to professors for as long as ten years, although such a period of time is unusual. Most instructors and professors do keep out a large number of library books, however, and for long periods of time--longer than is necessary even for such an crudite faculty. More stringent regulations would easily eliminate this, and not cause overmuch annoyance...