Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...third. The semi-finals between the Boiler Makers and the Barristers will be played this afternoon, and the winner will play the Dew Drops in the finals tomorrow. The teams are very evenly matched, and the games will be close, but the Dew Drops seem to have a slight advantage...
...though clever, will need cutting down; the act indeed would not lose by the omission of the quintette. The surprising and unexpected situations which abound in the play carry it along and give it great interest. In itself the play has but little plot and the book is of slight worth, but few Pudding plays have had such good music. The words too of the songs are wonderfully good. Undoubtedly the best figure of the play is W. Edmunds '00. He is convulsively funny, and compares very favorably with J. C. McCall in last year's theatricals. Every movement, every...
...there was an absence of life and dash in the stroke. The men in the eight, however, were all rowing strongly, and after a quarter mile of the distance had been traversed the boat had moved up to second place. The second crews were rowing evenly, with a slight advantage for the second Newell. The first Weld eight was beginning to row in better time and form and was rapidly drawing up on the first Newell. The chief difference in the rowing of the two crews was in the finish of the stroke, which the Weld men were holding...
...preliminary stage-setting of "Two's Company" by J.G. Forbes is unjustified and over-elaborate; the plot, too, is slight; but the keen criticism of life running through the story keeps up the interest...
...itself moored by the coal wharf opposite. She has proved satisfactory in all but two particulars -- in turning she requires more room than was expected, and in starting she is not quick to gather headway, which often allows a crew to get out of reach. Her wake, however, is slight and does not seriously bother passing crews...