Word: slights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the slight differences from previous editions will be appearance of a greater number and variety of cuts. The book will also contain a special editorial on the House Plan, which will probably be in a fairly light vein. The Board expects to choose a prominent Faculty member to whom the Red Book will be dedicated in about two weeks...
...injurious to the tutorial system. In the first place, the full-time tutor loses efficiency because he is unable sufficiently to replenish himself through outside study. Then, too, as long as the University virtually demands a doctorate for promotion, the ambitious, and consequently the best, teachers are forced to slight their tutorial work in order to prepare for their doctor's examinations. This is particularly true in cases of the tutor who has junior and senior honor candidates among his tutees...
...book of poetry is even less likely to produce any stir of interest than the new novel or biography. This insensitiveness on the part of the reading public to contemporary verse is probably due to the innumerable slim, exotic volumes put forth by poetasters and minor aesthetes which offer slight satisfaction for all their fine exteriors and extravagant claims. Even if bad poetry does usually fall more miserably than bad prose, those works which actually reach the heights of true poetry and sustain themselves there are all the more worthy of admiration and attention...
Some of the leading defenders of the chapel as a memorial feel that the slight spiritual sentiment at Harvard may be uplifted and augmented by providing new and more beautiful surroundings. On principle, this is a very superficial method of raising religious ideals. And in practice, it would be a stupendous mockery. Certainly if the function of a memorial is to equal its symbolic significance, a new chapel is the last type of edifice to erect on Harvard ground. Among the architect's plans there is a chapel capable of seating a congregation of 2,000. Yet, only...
...over Walter's return. They adore their fiery Toscanini but Walter, they recall, was always considerate and gentle at rehearsals. Audiences too will note a great difference in the methods of the two men. Conductor Walter's gestures are restrained. He often signifies his wishes by a slight facial expression. He will not perform any of his own compositions, that much is sure. He does not like them...