Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...quickest reactions in all positions and tests were found to be given by a single individual as were also the slowest. The slightest and greatest errors are more scattered among the subjects. The range of individual variation in quickness and accuracy is sufficient to determine the position of any given subject in the series...
...gentlemanliness will never be more called for. The occasion will be unique and delightful,- one whose memory will long remain with us. Not even the rashest among us can fail to see how very unfortunate it would be if such an occasion should be marred in even the slightest way. Every act must be in harmony with Mr. Irving's own spirit...
Take, for example, the spade and notice how each school treats it. For the Realist of the Ruskin type it is a tool of wood and iron, every fibre, every grain, every slightest characteristic of which, even the name branded in scarcely legible letters on the handle, must be painted with the most painful accuracy. For the Impressionist it is the symbol of labor, a mass of shadow against a twilight sky, suggesting peasant toil and suffering. Between these we must decide. We want neither a collection, a conglomeration of geology and botany, nor a vague, indefinite suggestion...
Many people have a mistaken impression that the so-called higher criticism has injured the integrity of the Bible. Higher criticism is simply a study of the frame in which the word of God is presented to us, and it cannot affect in the slightest degree, the picture within the frame. This distinction is sharply drawn in the higher criticism, but unfortunately there is a difference between higher criticism and higher critics. If the Bible has suffered from its critics, it has been from those who have transcended the bounds of higher criticism and who have disregarded its very first...
There is not the slightest doubt but that Hemenway Gymnasium is utterly unfitted to provide decently proper bathing facilities for the increasing crowds of students. Any one who will carefully look into the matter must be convinced of this. Each year the discomfort and dissatisfaction increase. Next fall the college will open with a larger number of students than ever before and the question is, are things to remain as they are now? No better time for alterations could be had than during the summer months, when by a moderate expenditure the Corporation could relieve the University of a condition...