Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...educational advantage the actual presentation of a tragedy characteristic of the highest degree of art reached in French Literature offers to most members of the University a unique and most valuable opportunity. No one who has the slightest interest in that branch of culture can afford to let the week pass without being present at one of the three remaining performances. They will take place Wednesday and Friday nights and Saturday afternoon...
...action of the committee is not in itself alone anything to take the slightest pleasure in; it has been a disagreeable duty performed to gain a very desirable end. The inexperience of the men involved in the affair, and the fact that they did not, in all probability, realize the serious character of what they did, makes it very hard to interfere with the continuance of their college course...
...high time, therefore, that the students should assert themselves, if only for the protection of those who are working for them heart and soul. Let every man who has the slightest suspicion to work upon consider well his duty to the rest of the College. To speak plainly, the interests of the undergraduates demand that the offenders shall be hunted out and expelled at once...
...ordinary protest or petition will be of the slightest weight. I believe there is but one thing for the Senior Class to do, and that is to draw up a protest stating that if the Corporation abolishes the scrimmage around the Tree, the Class Day Committee will resign, and that there will be no Class Day whatever for the class of Ninety-seven. In this way alone the Seniors may show that they are in earnest, that the custom which is so lightly disposed of by the Corporation is of vital importance to them. It will arouse the graduates...
...second trial to choose the men who will debate against Princeton will be held tonight and must be made more successful than the one held last Tuesday. As has been suggested before, every man of the slightest ability in public speaking, whether he has been on an intercollegiate debate before, or whether he has had no experience, should speak tonight. Interest in the Yale debate and the desire to represent Harvard in it should not lead men to neglect the Princeton debate which is certainly equally important...