Word: rather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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George Francis Train gave a rather incoherent lecture to a small audience in Bangor on Monday evening. Among other things, he drew a diagram, on which he represented himself as on the top of a high mountain, exceeding in knowledge everybody else in the world. He placed Harvard graduates in the bottom layer, bunco steerers next above them, and then Ralph Waldo Emerson...
Last week the freshmen and sophomores had their first "rush" of the year, and rather to the surprise of the college, '90 was completely done up. It was quite a mild affair, and for the first time in years there was no fight around the cannon. The spirit of hazing has died out here to a very great extent, apparently, and whether due to the gentleness of '90 or the severity of the proctors there has been less this year than ever before. The good effects are plainly visible in the increased number of freshmen seen on the track...
...principle is an excellent one that the young man should labor to strengthen his weak points rather than to develop indefinitely his stronger ones. We do not know that it is desirable that young men should aspire to be 'record breakers' in particular sports. It seems to us better that they should be moderately good in all; but we recognize while human nature is what it is, that many will aspire to special excellence. It would be a curious problem in experimental mechanics to decide just how a man should be built to use his strength to the greatest advantage...
Friday's Yale News says that "the chances for the success of our foot-ball team this year seem to grow rather less each day." It then goes on and gives its reason as the weakness of the team behind the rush line...
...Gill, the right and left guards, are both crew men and are exceptionally strong and active. The two remaining positions in the line are filled by Carter and Cross. The ormer is a crew man, and the latter was a substitute. The rush line, as a whole, is rather above the average weight, and most of the men are veterans. The blocking and tackling is for the most part good, but at times the men are slow in getting through the opposing rush line...