Word: slights
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...when it introduced the so called combined course into the professional schools, permitting the saving of at least one year. This combined-course idea rapidly spread throughout the country and is now adopted by most of the leading universities, barring a few conservative institutions in the East. A slight modification of this system was later introduced at Columbia in the Schools of Engineering, Mining, and Chemistry, which were put upon a basis of advanced standing requiring three years of college work for entrance, thus making possible a combined course of six years from entrance into the college...
Among these contributions, "The Genesis of Beauty," by R. Cutler '16, easily takes first rank. The slight bit of narrative in this sketch is thrown against a background of splendid color, and the whole thing is done quickly and powerfully. The author might be suspected to have been recently diving into Russian novelists, but if this is the result of any such reading, it is to be highly commended. Perhaps equally successful is O. W. Larkin '18 in "Imagination in a Pawnshop," which with the skill and the tantalizing of Frank Stockton Smith leaves us in anything but a satisfied...
...seconds, the first by Teschner and the second by Moore of Princeton over Smith of Michigan and Treadway of Yale. In the final heat inches only separated the first three place winners, who were all credited with even time. Smith's spurt at the end gave him a slight advantage over Moore. Teschner finished a strong third, but pulled a tendon, which kept him from running in the 220. Van Winkle of Cornell and Treadway of Yale took fourth and fifth places respectively...
...discussing the benefit and pleasure that the fellows have gained from Mr. Clark's advice and encouragement; I do feel it only just to protest against the slight, but none the less utterly unjust criticism of a man who has constantly sacrificed his own interests for the benefit of Harvard track interests. RALPH H. HOWE...
Phillip W. Thayer in "A Transfigured Julia" gleefully hits off the capricious changes of fashion in girls: "Lissome Julia anatomically slight," "Robust Julia, playing golf and swimming harder," Suffrage Julia "prances in the [poet's] limelight." Witter Bynner is not up to his poetic form in "Though Wisdom Dies." Wisdom is a theme which cannot be completely developed in two short stanzas nor can imagination be "uncurled small as forget-me-nots." The characteristics of the verse of this number are cleverness, insight, a sure, light touch, and a sense of the sober humor of the contrasts of life...