Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...obliged to peruse his "unabridged" on the slightest occasion, and who cannot write half a page without looking up a dozen words, may read the following with every feeling of satisfaction and pleasure. A recent essay on the subject of spelling and reading English gives voice to some rather remarkable opinions, a consideration of which it was thought would be interesting, especially to the class of men spoken of above...
...students at Johns Hopkins to change their debating society into a "Students' House of Commons." Surely this gives evidence that Anglomania has gone quite far enough. The "it's English, yer knaw" is a very bad principle to have established in any degree among American students, and the slightest tendencies towards this fearful Anglomania should be nipped at once. Such a mania, among college men in particular, is likely to do no end of evil, tending to destroy all national individuality. If our students cannot be Americans, the time may come when the students of to-day, having become leaders...
...insure the election of men who will conduct the meetings in a manner consistent with the dignity of the society, every member should feel it his duty to attend. Often the success of such societies is imperiled at the outset by placing in office men who possess only the slightest knowledge of parliamentary rules, or whose interest soon fags after they receive the honor of an election. As the only society at Harvard devoted exclusively to debate and practice in parliamentary procedure the Union has become one of the permanent fixtures of the university. It has ever been recognized...
...have been practising constantly for several months. Not only is the club good individually, but it will be assisted by the '88 members of the Pierian who form so large and able a part of that body. That the concert will be a success, we have not the slightest doubt; and the smallness of price of admission, and the laudable object for which the concert is given, should combine to make every member of the class attend...
This same Brown game was conspic uous also for another censurable feature-the neglectful treatment of the visitors by the home management. We learn that not the slightest act of hospitality was extended to our freshmen. Such conduct is self-condemnible. We hope, however, that, when the return game is played in Cambridge, the Brown men will have occasion to learn what hospitality and courtesy...