Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...whole, I think it good enough for a law-student like myself. You see I did n't get my degree last year, and so now I am determined to rough it. To come to the point, I had always regarded the men who boarded here somewhat in the light of barbarians, but I was hardly prepared to find them sunk so deep in their barbarism. You will scarcely believe me, I imagine, when I tell you that at one table at my end of the Hall a regular debating society has been formed. Fierce discussions take place at breakfast...
...before half past eight. Last Sunday only three came before that hour. The Steward says that he would be perfectly willing to have the Sunday breakfast postponed half an hour if the boarders so desire. The principal difficulty would be with the Catholic help, whose church-going would be somewhat interfered with. The Directors strangely argue that the change would do no good, because men would come at the last minute, at half past nine, as they do now at nine. But this very thing would show that the late hour is desired, since so many men improve the extra...
...concert was opened at about a quarter before eight with the "Three Glasses," a rousing drinking-song, by Fischer. The sentiments expressed in this song were somewhat at variance with the surroundings, and it consequently was not as rapturously applauded as it might have been. "The Three Chafers" and "To the Bravest" were the only glees encored...
...Trinity Tablet greatly yearns for Latin services in chapel. Its argument in their favor is somewhat as follows: Our course of study is more like that of Oxford and Cambridge than that of other American colleges. Our new buildings are "after the plan of the old English University system" (whatever the plan of a system may be), therefore we should go further and have Latin prayers, because these are used in the English universities. To begin with, we should like to know how a course of study can be at once like those of Oxford and Cambridge, which are essentially...
...game between Princeton and Harvard took place on the St. George Cricket Grounds on Friday, November 3. The weather was all that could be desired; but the turf was somewhat wet and slippery from the rain of the preceding day. About five or six hundred people assembled to witness the game, mostly friends of Princeton, though we were glad to see among the crowd several fair wearers of the crimson...