Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...senses so vividly a succession of impressions of a fire. One wonders, at first, how the other two stories got by. Except for a hint of love on the page, any young man's fancy would indeed be far turned before he could read into either of them the slightest serious likeness; and they are nothing if not serious. At the Union probably, as at the offices of professional magazines, the love-story is out of proportion inferior to all else that comes in. And what's a magazine without love-stories...
...weakness, to desire to abolish a game because tendencies show themselves, or practices grow up, which prove that the game ought to be reformed. Take football for instance. The preparatory schools are able to keep football clean and to develop the right spirit in the players without the slightest necessity ever arising to so much as consider the question of abolishing it. There is no excuse whatever for colleges failing to show the same capacity, and there is no real need for considering the question of the abolition of the game. If necessary, let the college authorities interfere to stop...
Western civilization is built on economic principles--Oriental civilization on morals. The basis of Burmese society, which has not the slightest connection with that of India, is Buddhism, some conception of which we must have to explain the character and institutions of Burma...
...there are at present several cases of measles and mumps among Harvard students, I desire to call attention to the importance of consulting a physician immediately if there is the slightest occasion to suspect either disease. I should also like to emphasize the following facts...
...visitor to the University was lately heard to express surprise that he had seen undergraduates who were introduced to one another in his presence on one day pass by in each other's sight on the next without the exchange of a common greeting or the slightest act of recognition. To the aspersions "Harvard indifference" and "Harvard snobbery" we are not inclined to accredit a greater basis in fact than to the myriad of similar slanders made against every university by shallow phrase-makers with more time than ideas at their disposal. But it ought to be our care that...