Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the Dean's List privilege is, or should be, relative to current standing. The freedom granted by academic excellence is not so great that it should be accorded only twice a year, and it may be so valuable, properly used, that more students should enjoy it, for however slight a time, whenever they qualify in their courses. Such temporary elevation in standing needs careful guard to prevent its abuse; perhaps it was this knowledge that led the authorities to require consultation with the assistant deans before employment of the privilege...
...Bruns '30, W. R. Harper '30, and B. H. Ticknor '31 appeared at Hemenway Gymnasium for the first time since the beginning of practice, and, since these men are some two weeks behind the rest of the squad in preparatory work there appears to be only a slight chance that any of them will win a regular berth for the game against Northeastern next Tuesday. They showed the lack of practice yesterday afternoon in the gymnasium...
...series of mysterious ground movements accompanied the slight storm of Saturday night and the heavier one of Sunday night, it was learned yesterday at the University seismographic station...
...import side, there were slight declines in the dollar-volume of foodstuffs, raw materials and semi-manufactures, but an increase in manufactures. The manufactures item indicated increased competition from abroad and illustrated that price-reductions were also the cause of shrinkage in dollar-volume of imports. Quantitatively, 1928 imports increased nearly 3% over 1927 and the total was record-breaking...
...rate them as solitary heroes. This thankless task is attended to by sports writers on whose hands time hangs heavy when the football season is over. What is remarkable about this performance is this: the pickers of Ail-American teams not infrequently agree with each other to some slight extent...