Word: insomuch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...competition for the prize offered by the Glee Club for a college song has resulted in no award, insomuch as no song of sufficient merit was offered...
...Executive Committee of the League for a Protective Tariff have offered three prizes for the best essays written by seniors of American colleges on the necessity for a protective tariff. This plan will undoubtedly induce many men to study the subject, insomuch as the prizes are of an amount that will repay the successful contestants for their labor. In view of the present condition of the tariff, it is well that such study should be given it. The competition without doubt will be very extended, and the successful papers will be well worth the publication which is designed for them...
...been. But such must always be the case when complications arise similar to those which have been brought so prominently to public attention in connection with the location of the game. The fact that the game was played at Princeton must settle the right and wrong of the matter, insomuch as the arbitration was left to men of known integrity and thorough familiarity with the matter under dispute. The fact that the game was a tie will undoubtedly occasion further discussion and will probably necessitate another game played upon neutral ground. Such a game will arouse the interest...
...chairman of the anniversary committee has been informed by Mayor Russell that four flags used in decoration on the route of the torchlight parade, are missing, and that it is desirous that every effort shall be made to recover them, insomuch as the owner of three of the flags is a poor man, and can ill afford such a loss, while the fourth flag is one which was carried throughout the war by a resident of the city, whose heirs naturally attach great importance to its possession. It is urged that if any undergraduate was led by the enthusiasm...
...conduct of celebrations is now in the hands of the students. Let the students prove themselves men. If opposition to the desire of some to build fires must be shown, let it be done in as gentlemanly a manner as possible. But insomuch as the students are themselves responsible, each man ought to feel his responsibility, and look to no other man as his leader in a matter of purely gentlemanly conduct...