Word: slights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interesting resume of Harvard's eating customs which appears elsewhere in today's CRIMSON, the most relevant contribution is the fact that the "High Table" at one time proposed for the House Plan, would be merely a continuance of a Harvard tradition with only a slight twinge of anglican influence in its makeup. While the resurrection of the before-and-after-dinner "blessing" might prove rather amusing, the suggestion to perpetrate Harvard's past through the medium of the High Table, a purely British extraction despite its 300 years of acclimation, holds very little appeal...
...Tower of London caught fire. Slight, the blaze was soon...
...unfortunate that it should be necessary to decide as late as December to cut a course in half, especially when the second part covers over fifty important years. Any student in English 7 feels a slight hesitation about criticizing the department in this case, because the announcement was patently a result of a series of unfortunate events; but the fact remains that there is no other course which covers this period, and over half the students enrolled in it are seniors. This lays a double burden on them which is hardly welcome with honor theses due in March and Divisionals...
Although the highest tablelands and slopes of western Newfoundland have had no recent glacial cap, some of them are today not very far removed from a local glacial condition. Practically every summer, compact snowbanks lie on the northern-facing slopes; and it is evident that, by a very slight reduction of the mean annual temperature these snowfields would be transformed into alpine glaciers...
...yard hurdle race was fast and the ability of Wells to get off the last fence in a hurry enabled him to turn in a time of 5 4-5 seconds, equalling the world record. Alcorn, of Dartmouth, was a good second and had only a slight lead over Mardulier...