Word: slights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are three leading candidates for the position behind the home plate. W. W. Lord '28, who played both in the field and on first base last spring, seems to have a very slight edge over his rivals, E. J. Steptoe '29 and D. P. Donaldson '28. Steptoe and Donaldson are both catchers of considerable experience, and although neither of them has been a regular on the University nine, they are perfectly capable of developing into first rate backstops...
...student talent: the Music Building furnishes accommodations: the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Whiting concerts are visitors from outside that help endow the University in that art. Likewise the history and current events of music are here, to be had for the asking, or, as tonight, for the slight labor of attending a lecture...
Second of the bona fide sciences to yield under pressure of the spreading tutorial system is the Geology Department. The creation two years ago of the Department of Bio-chemical Sciences, removing as it did the grievous errors in pre-medical education, was yet only a slight breach in what seemed an impregnable wall. Then came, in April of last year, the announcement that the Department of Biology would begin the following academic year under the tutorial system. The decision announced today gives an appearance of progression to these events, a progression that can be concluded only with the adoption...
...ticking metronome was set beside a dog. Simultaneously he was given a slight electric shock in the leg. This was repeated several times. Finally the metronome alone was used. As soon as it started ticking, up came the paw, the dog's face contracted with pain and he remained in agony until the instrument was removed...
...mundane speculations. Dr. Paul Renno Heyl, a physicist attached to the U. S. Bureau of Standards, began his second series of experiments to determine the world's weight. Last year he estimated this to be 6,592,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. Now, by making a slight change in his apparatus,* Astronomer Heyl expects to achieve a slight but consequential difference in his result...