Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...yesterdays paper, more especially in the portion relating to Mr. Sanford's story, the reviewer has forgotten some of the first elements of criticism; namely, that a literary work should be regarded as a whole, and that it is unjust to criticise excerpts from a story without the slightest reference to the context, when by so doing he perverts the meaning and general effect of the passage in question. Now the critic takes exception to the hero's "quoting Homer in the death agony ond dying with Horace on his lips." In the abstract, if we merely consider that...
...Stoughton. The seniors provided punch in a barrel, and brandy and water in pails, which were placed at the foot of the tree, and were steadily replenished all the afternoon, mugs ad libitum being provided for all comers. There were singing, dancing, speaking intermingled with unlimited drinking. Not the slightest attempt was made to control or repress this. It was simply a brutal, howling orgies. There was little attempt at fun, no kind of system or traditional order, nothing but steady drinking and the resulting drunkenness...
...sensational story appeared in the New York papers last Wednesday describing a fight between two Harvard students over a sweet-heart. It is needless to say the article was without the slightest vestige of truth...
...hook in the gymnasium and find it again after exercising. Affairs are just the same at Memorial. Books and umbrellas disappear as rapidly there. Moreover, we cannot lay all the blame on that convenient scape goat, the mucker. There are some men in college who have not the slightest sense of honor. Who are they? They should be discovered and properly punished...
...this Lampoon is exceedingly pleasing to us, - we believe it will be so to the college, - because from cover to cover, there appears not the slightest reference to the "Crime...