Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...much regret that we notice the dismissal of a large part of the force at Agassiz's Museum. This discharge, together with a smaller one which took place soon after the death of Agassiz, considerably weakens the efficiency of the Institution, and renders the success of the original plan somewhat problematical...
...called year of philosophy that is especially reserved to the study of science. All previous work is then reviewed, and physics and chemistry added. A course of contemporaneous history is now taken, - a somewhat unfortunate innovation, which obliges the professor to pass judgment on events in which sometimes he has himself played a part, or at least taken sides, and that, too, in a country so often shaken and its government overturned by successive revolutions. In this year philosophy is begun. Certain of the Greek, Latin, and French philosophers are read, - Seneca, Cicero, Plato, Xenophon, Descartes, Pascal, Fenelon, Bossuet. These...
ALTHOUGH our College has so decisively declared itself against engaging in an intercollegiate literary contest, such as is proposed for the coming summer, we confess to having many lingering regrets for the somewhat inconsiderate determination at which we so hastily arrived. We think that these are shared by quite a large number of our fellow-students, who are curious to see how our men would stand in comparison with those of other colleges, and to find out whether we are really much worse off for our lack of collegiate instruction in writing and speaking, which we have so often been...
...both, especially in "Cain," with which he was so often stigmatized. They both abound in fine verses, both show deep thought. "Cain," I believe, develops some peculiar ideas on religion, some very fair reasoning, and curious statements, which, amongst all the grand imagery and marked characters, are apt to somewhat disturb the mind of a cursory reader. The object of these remarks is to suggest that Mr. Taine, in doing Byron's "Manfred" full justice, might have given some of his other dramas a more prominent place, which they certainly deserve...
...spoke of the great advantage of a course of general reading in college. In reply to the fifth toast, "The Boating Interest," Mr. D. C. Bacon gave a short statement of the plans of the University Crew for the coming summer, and said that although the class had been somewhat unfortunate in losing a good many of its boating men, still "seventy-six" in all probability would have a crew on the river in the spring. As nearly every one of the speakers had alluded in one way or another to the "Ball Interest," Mr. N. W. Perry found...