Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ways. This argument smacks strongly of a too careful study of the troubles in the class of seventy-seven. The class of seventy-eight have always got on remarkably well together. They have had numerous meetings, all of which have been harmonious. There has never been the slightest complaint that one society has encroached upon the rights of others; and there is no reason why the Class-Day officers should not be elected as smoothly, as easily, and as satisfactorily as were the officers of the Sophomore dinner...
...elsewhere announced that the scratch races will take place to-morrow. We wish earnestly to advise all who take the slightest interest in boating to enter their names for these races, in which the number of contestants, rather than their quality, is what is desired. We would most strongly urge those who make their first appearance here this year to improve this opportunity to pull in races which, although the stakes are small, and little honor is won or lost, nevertheless afford the captain of the University Crew and the captains of the club crews one of the best opportunities...
...answer this question in the affirmative without the slightest hesitation. The first indications were by no means promising, however, and the youthful Keltic mind did not seem to grasp the true spirit of the reform. Many strange inconsistencies were noticed at first. For instance, a small boy who saluted an elderly gentleman with much politeness saw nothing inappropriate, when beyond the reach of the gentleman's cane, in addressing him in terms more familiar than complimentary; a youth whose manners were very winning, and who had even attained some degree of perfection in tying a cravat, was in the constant...
...superficial one. Now, no one will maintain that a thorough education can be gained by electing one or two courses in each department that appears on the scheme. Yet how often this is done! How many men are there who choose their studies for the Sophomore year without the slightest thought of what they are going to take in the Junior year, and continue their plan by choosing their Junior studies without regard to those that they will select for their Senior year. Hence it is that we find men taking Classics as Sophomores, Modern Languages as Juniors, and finishing...
...darkest mysteries to the average undergraduate mind that our Faculty should be so backward in paying respect to the memory of great men. Not the slightest observance is paid in this College to Washington's Birthday; the Faculty stopped recitations on the day of Charles Sumner's burial only so long as his corpse was passing the very College precincts, and last Wednesday, when the funeral services of Governor Washburn were being performed in the Chapel no official notice was taken of it by the College, and students - your correspondent among others - were compelled to attend recitations while the bells...