Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lower floor capable of holding nearly 100,000 volumes, and the upper two about 50,000 each. The lower floor will practicully be filled by the old books. All three of the floors are well supplied with electric lights so at no time will there be, as before, the slightest difficulty in seeing plainly in all parts of the stacks...
There are problems involved in the matter now so unexpectedly precipitated which may well occupy us in anxious study. Is the Monroe Doctrine, whatever it is, a principle, the slightest infringement of which we must resist, or is it only a doctirne upon which we may fall back when our interest requires; has it yet a place in international law, or is it simply an assertion which we offer to make good by force; is the Venezuela incident such a menace to our interest as calls for the assertion of it; if so, shall it be asserted to the point...
...produce war than to invite European aggressions on American states by abject surrender of our principles. By a combination of indifference on the part of most of our people, a spirit of eager servility toward England in another smaller portion, and a base desire to avoid the slightest financial loss even at the cost of the loss of national honor by yet another portion, we may be led into a course of action which will for the moment avoid trouble by the simple process of tame submission to wrong. If this is done it will surely invite a repetition...
...with the 'varsity football squad for three years and can say that under Cumnock and Trafford there was absolutely no partiality. With regard to the crews under Perkins, Kelton and Vail, with which I was brought closely in contact, I never saw the slightest favoritism or heard any charge of it. I knew little of the nine, but Frothingham was never in his life accused of unamnliness...
Such a charge as favoritism should be taken seriously. I believe there is not the slightest foundation for it. If any disgruntled candidates have made it, let them state their case openly. Harvard cannot bear to let this go unanswered. I challenge Mr. Thayer or any other man to state a specific case where favoritism was shown...