Word: whit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...each "camp." What we would propose at Harvard is the organization in the Junior and Senior classes of little independent "camps," which could meet separately on a social basis and compete informally together. To make a risky analogy, such a system would resemble scrub baseball, and might prove every whit as successful in arousing general interest...
...Whitney can surely do much to obtain this college support by personal application. He knows or ought to know, that the Harvard Athletic Committee is working for the same ends as he, and every whit as earnestly as he. Yet he has attacked individuals under the committee's jurisdiction, without giving them a chance to speak for themselves. The course he has thus taken runs the risk of error, and it tends very strongly to cause such distrust and illfeeling as to destroy the influence which he might exert as the ally of the conservative movement in the colleges toward...
...WHIT, 53 Devonshire St., Boston.81...
...ignorant doctors, their rough, crude methods, their bleedings, and purgatives, and above all their quackery and pretensions to knowledge. The great difficulty was to handle so repulsive a subject in such a way as to make it agreeable, and in this, Moliere succeeded to an astonishing degree, without one whit weakening his attack...
...glamour of false sentiment under which much "slum-work" is carried on. Any idea of condescension is entirely foreign to the spirit of the Prospect Union. It is an association of college students and wage-earners for mutual helpfulness and the benefit derived by the student is not a whit less, if it is not even greater, than that derived by the wage earner. A proof of this is seen in the fact that the very best strength of the University has been freely spent in this service and that the union never finds serious difficulty in providing competent instructors...