Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of scholarship applications represent 50.7 percent of the total applications, a slight drop from the percentages of 51.7 for the class of '58 and the record...
Dean Rogers of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences also did not anticipate many more applicants, explaining, "Theoretically, we might expect a slight increase in the number of applicants. However, as most of our students come here seeking a Ph.D., which almost inevitably requires more than two years, I do not think the change would help them very much, and I do not expect many more applications...
Most important, which fields of study will the University emphasize? Acquisition funds are currently $60,000 short of what is needed to keep existing collections up to date. Buck will have to decide which fields to slight, which fields to leave these problems largely to the University. He merely attempted to give the University the service it wanted as it wanted it. Buck will come to his office with convictions on these problem, for he has been an educator and a scholar rather than a public servant. In this area, he may indeed find that real conflict replaces the prejudices...
Students who have been refused shots of the gamma globulin were irate and complained that the doctors offered to give them a prescription and have them buy it themselves. Contratto explained that only persons who had slight contact with the ill student were being refused free inoculations. The State will not give gamma globulin for use in a scare, he said...
...mere finger-tapper has become a man representative of the crudest sensibilities. It is now necessary to writhe or "rock" or wriggle one's whole body in a number of strange contortions, and to accompany this motion with a relaxation of the facial muscles and a slight quivering of the lips. This, then, is the first problem that confronts the popular song listener: Learn to express your response through all limbs, trunk, as well as digits, and you will soon surmount the first obstacle on the road to full musical appreciation...