Word: rather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...outlook for a good freshman nine at Yale is said to be rather unpromising...
...caused an enormous increase of commerce. In literature a great improvement has taken place. Schools, universities, polytechnics have all increased in number of attendants, and many good works have been published. This resuscitation of Germany has caused her neighbors to try to rival her and has brought up the rather strained condition of European politics...
...also some new ones. Mr. A. E. Jenks accompanied the club as yodler and gave two or three songs very creditably, but otherwise the work of the club was hardly above the average. The Apollo Banjo Club made a very favorable impression, playing selections noticeable for their harmonies rather than for any brilliancy of execution. The work of the two clubs was well received, and they were given quite a number of encores...
...rather hard to understand why, from a class of over three hundred, only ten men have presented themselves as candidates for the tug-of-war team. It may be that the men do not realize how much interest is taken in the tug-of-war contests at the winter meetings that in these contests class feeling finds expression as at no other time, except at the class races in May. Rope and anchor work are not hard to learn, and it only requires practice to make any ordinarily strong man serviceable on a tug-of-war team. If Ninety...
...objects sensible to the vision; so we may perceive the evil of competitive examinations by the manner in which they dim the keenness of the moral perceptions of those affected by them. The mind will not be broadened by an education which is built on the competitive examination system; rather, it will be narrowed by the most superficial and selfish ambition-the rank-list. Knowledge is no longer sought for knowledge's sake, but as an instrument for securing prizes and scholarships. And it too often happens that knowledge is not sought at all, but merely the scholarships and prizes...