Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...China across the Pacific and then return to America by way of India and Suez, thus giving him a trip around the world. Nobody should be deferred by the present disorder in China because it has no anti-foreign aspect at all and the danger is very slight. Also, this is purely a teaching proposition and the teachers are not required to do any evangelical work. It is an opportunity to spend several years in a very fascinating country helping that country, years, that would be very interesting and happy...
...reading back among the stacks, and did not wake until the night watchman came along on his rounds and aroused him. The watchman used his key to open the door and let the sleeper out. Since the stacks are patrolled all through the night there is only a very slight chance of any one's remaining in the building long after the doors have been closed...
...Crimson backfield has a slight margin over the Tiger ball-carriers in weight, their average weight being 181 as compared with 164 for the Nassau men. This is made up for by the ten pounds that separates the averages of the two lines. That of the Crimson eleven weighs only 181, as did its backfield, while the seven Princeton linesmen average...
...game this afternoon Harvard is the slight favorite on paper, but precedent points to another Princeton victory. At any rate this game is always the most bitterly fought on the schedule, and today will be no exception...
...Haven, Conn., November 5.--After four hard games in so many weeks, Yale will have a slight breathing spell this Saturday before encountering Princeton and Harvard. The Blue eleven was outrushed and generally outplayed by Georgia, Dartmouth, Brown and the Army, but still remains as one of the few unbeaten, teams in the East. Fast thinking, and a knack of taking advantage of every break, has enabled the Bulldog successfully to weather an extremely difficult schedule...