Word: rather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...leading article, which is rather insufficient, Professor Shaler speaks of the great growth of the smaller colleges of America, due to local, sectional, sectarian and pecuniary reasons. These small colleges, he says, although poorly equipped in laboratories and libraries, are usually strongly supported by a small, enthusiastic body of alumni. "'Tis a small college, your Honor," said Webster in the Dartmouth trial, "but we love her!" This sentiment and these men Mr. Shaler would attract to Harvard, by offering scholarships or presentations to be controlled by the faculty of the smaller college, and awarded to deserving graduates. The university could...
...Bruce's is not. It is almost too strong throughout. It glows with Oriental savagery and splendor; but although the story is a very powerful, - well, tremendously powerful - one, it is rather too highly spiced for the average reader. The writer of "Alexis" has recently been censured for his penchant for slaughter; but it is to Mr. Bruce's lust for gore and rapine as the gentle zephyr is to the hurricane...
Since the publication of the communication to the CRIMSON with reference to the wretehed state of the basement at Weld, the college authorities have had plumbers investigating the difficulty. They find that some of the pipes were in a rather bad condition, but they have now been thoroughly repaired...
...opened with a decided fall in the base-ball thermometer, owing to the Harvard-Lowell controversy of the preceding summer - settled by melting the silver ball, the bone of contention. Harvard had won the ball from Lowell in the face of great opposition and public disapproval, and was rather elated over her victory, which aggravated her recent rival. Charges of trickery were made on both sides, in which the uniform dignity of the Harvard correspondence appears very favorably. The Lowell Club, taking advantage of the existing rule that a challenge for the ball was to be followed fifteen days after...
...rather turgid sonnet on "Evangline" begins the number; then, after the editorials, a rather powerful story, the treatment of which is new, though the phraseology is somewhat stiff and threadbare. Following are three sweet, dreamy stanzas, entitled "Homeward." They improve on second reading, and with the couplets headed "Another Answer," bring the verse of this issue much above the average. Between the these two intervenes a not very pointed and somewhat cynical story, "Broen's Mistake." It has one fatal fault that it is not true to nature; now who does write truely cannot act truely, and his work...