Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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LAST Saturday the Freshman Eleven played a game of foot-ball at Andover, against a team from Phillips Academy. During the first three-quarters Phillips had somewhat the advantage, though the Freshman at one time almost succeeded in getting a goal, the ball striking against the cross-piece and bounding back. In the second three-quarters '81 in their turn pressed their opponents; but nothing was gained, and the game ended in a draw. The best players were Eton and Nickerson of the Phillips, and Upham, Morse, and Clark of the Freshman Team. A supper was given to the Freshmen...
...During vacation 1,200 books have been added to the College Library. The Library now numbers somewhat over 37,000 volumes...
...party go for nearly half fare; but when several car-loads of Harvard students go to the Regatta at Springfield, full fare both ways is charged. Would it be asking too much of the next Regatta Committee to endeavor to make such arrangements with the railroads as to lighten somewhat the attack on the already depleted student pocket...
...commend to the perusal and profit of the editorial board of the foregoing publication the June number of the Abbott Courant. Though somewhat erratic as to its times of appearing, the Courant ranks among the best of its contemporaries. Bright, sensible, and unpretending, it has a strong personality which is its own best recommendation. The bright adaptations of "Mother Goose's Party" are both quaint and original, and the two poems of the number good...
...that he received last year the degree of Doctor of Laws from Harvard, and therefore he was in this point, if not in public station, ahead of President Hayes, and after communicating the interesting news that the present administration intended to smooth the path of the scholar in politics somewhat, paid the following tribute to Professor Lowell...