Word: slim
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Dunster House Bookshop in offering this lecture is to make a step towards giving members of the University an opportunity to hear prominent men talk on such subjects as are not usually touched on by lecturers coming to Cambridge,--on subjects about which data and information are slim...
...Colby contributes a tragedy of love and blood, called "Charlie." The hero is a brutish boxer led to ruin by "a all slim dark-haired figure of a girl" whom he murders in a terrific final melee. The story is so formidable that few would penetrate it. The style is excessive in adjectives, adverbs, "color." and bold bad phrasing--at times a debauchery of words. Yet the author gives hints of power...
There must still be undergraduates who not only read but think, and express their thoughts in simple, clear and forceful language. It cannot be that all the men who think have gone to the war, or, going, are treasuring their thoughts for slim posthumous volumes of the now familiar type. If things worth printing are still written in Cambridge, the Advocate editors still fail, after all the scolding they have been given of late, to lay eager hands upon the desirable manuscripts. With the Monthly eliminated, the Advocate ought to be able to get all of the best that Harvard...
...shall be compelled, against their will, to support it. If the majority of voters believe this today, all those men who believe the Union to be a failure; all those for whom its services are so small that they take no interest in it whatever; and all those whose slim purses would keep them from joining even at a $6 fee; all these are to be compelled to join the Union. And yet yesterday's writer naively said that to call it compulsion is "a waste of time...
...spring season ending with the Intercollegiates the last of May. Another opportunity to meet the Pennsylvania team which has beaten them twice this winter, will undoubtedly be given the Crimson runners at the Pennsylvania Track Carnival in April. The prospects for a winning aggregation are by no means slim...