Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With this view of the importance of the Princeton debate the very unsatisfactory trial last Tuesday is exceedingly discouraging. At the supplementary trial next Monday night let every former intercollegiate debater and every speaker of experience as well as every man of even the slightest ability do his plain duty by taking part in the debate...
Will you permit me through your columns to call attention to a Harvard custom which seems to me more honored in the breach than in the observance. I allude to the stamping by the students in Memorial Hall upon the slightest provocation. This evening a lady and gentleman entered the gallery, and the latter, happening to have his hat on, was greeted by a loud burst of stamping almost before he had reached the top of the staircase. He at once left the gallery. A similar incident took place a day or two ago in the case of two elderly...
...student who made so vigorous a kick in yesterday's CRIMSON at the modest request that gentlemen leave their bage in the coat room of the library evidently labors under a misconception. No fair-minded person could raise the slightest objection to a student's taking into the library a receptacle for his books and papers. Moreover, the library officials are doubtless well aware that books can be purloined without the aid of a bag. The request appeals to those who would make the place a baggage room...
...clever sketch. It describes the ingenius way the inhabitants of a certain Hungarian village have of treating their shrews. These two articles and the latter of the "Two Sketches" are the only things that are worth reading in the number. None of the other contents has the slightest excuse for publication, except that of filling space...
...results of overtraining have been much exaggerated. The percentage of athletes injured in this way is small. Out of over 4000 men examined who were members of various Harvard teams not over one per cent were affected with the slightest cardiac trouble. It is in those events in which there are long strains and few intervals of rest that the heart is most strained, such as tugs-of war; but in football the heart has intervals of rest and the strain is not great...