Word: rather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...view to making the punishment for "cribbing" more severe, and at the same time more just, both to the accused and to the students in general, that the "student jury," was proposed. This was the subject on which communication was invited. The discussion desired was on the remedies rather than on the evils existing at present...
...believe earnestly in an adherence to the principles of party allegiance. Much as we welcome the recent correspondence, however, we believe that we would go beyond our offices, if we continued to make it public. We publish "Mugwump's" communication to-day only because it is an explanation, rather than any continuation of the discussion...
...boat clubs, for a while threatened to impair the boating facilities hitherto enjoyed by our various crews. Arrangements have at last been made, however, by the Union Boat Club, whereby the bridge will be so constructed that it will injure the present course in no material way. And so rather than a hindrance the new bridge will prove a real benefit, even to the boating interests of Harvard. For will it not afford increased opportunities to the spectators at the races...
...person to put them into operation. But, - and in all seriousness, - the undergraduates know perfectly well that there is constant danger of a terrible calamity by the burning of some of our tinderbox dormitories, and the fact that such a disaster is looked forward to by them was proved rather conclusively a few weeks ago, when an alarm, rung in from the box on Memorial Hall, emptied every building in the yard in less than two minutes, and sent half a thousand men to the point where the danger was indicated...
...know. The Crimson should know that the difference between a poet and poetaster is that the poet has the imagination, and the poetaster the sense. Further, a Western man generally has more sense than an Eastern man. A Western poetaster, thus overflowing with sense, would show himself rather a poet than a poetaster if he ever imagined so strange a thing as that any college poet could be a decent model for the verses he wishes to palm off as poetry; and he would show himself a sort of Cambridge top rather than a Western man of practical sense...