Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Allow me to thank you for your manly editorial in the Post on Saturday. No one likes to find fault with the alumni association of his college, but to turn a social gathering into an endorsement of an athlete without the slightest pretence of investigating the charges against him for the last three years, which, whether they have any foundation or not, are made by so many disinterested persons that they can not be met by a general denial, however vociferous, is, to say the least, a perversion of the object of a college dinner. You deserve the thanks...
...attention is directed to the end the means which attain it are often by that very fact thought justified. This should not be so. The true sportsmanlike spirit, so often referred to yet so often forgotten, should be present at all times and under all circumstances, unflinchingly condemning the slightest deviation from gentlemanly play. Where rules must always fail, the cultivation of this spirit will raise football to its proper plane as probably the finest of athletic games...
...Watson is not here to pick a crew from fellows of his immediate acquaintance or to be partial in the slightest degree; the idea is simply absurd. He is here to teach us to row, a position for which his thorough knowledge of the science adapts him; he is here to pull us out of the hole into which we have fallen and to establish a system which shall win, as it must, a full share of victories in the future...
This gives but the slightest summary of the important official positions which Judge Hoar has held. His reputation has been wide-spread and the whole country has been awaiting with anxious interest the outcome of his illness. He leaves a family of three sons and two daughters, of whom the sons have attained considerable prominence in the law. The eldest, Samuel Hoar, is a Fellow of the Corporation of Harvard, which position his father had held as well. Judge Hoar had also been a member of the Board of Overseers. His connection with Harvard as a graduate from both College...
...freshman row at the Hyperion on Monday night, though it has not the slightest connection, in the natural order of things, with matters athletic, has again started the question of possible action by the Faculty on intercollegiate athletic contests. The direct result of the disturbance will be the abridgement of the particular privileges of the class in athletic sports, as furnishing the best means of punishment at hand, and the indirect result may be the opening up of the whole problem of collegiate athletics. The desire on the part of the so-called conservatives of the Yale Faculty...