Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...YORK, Oct. 16, 1882. The session at Columbia has opened with somewhat of the old time life. The coming of a freshman class numbering between one hundred and one hundred and ten men adds much to the wonted activity of our affairs collegiate. '85 having put on sophomoric dignity begins to show some qualities not characteristic of funerals which were conspicuous by their absence last year. The present freshmen are for the most part large, well built men, and while the average age is about eighteen there are quite a number of them who long since passed their teens...
...after the modern style of magazine decoration. In general character its first number does not seem to differ materially from the Chronicle except perhaps in some matters of local tone not perceptible to an outsider. Still it must not be judged by its first number. It seems to be somewhat less given to flippant frivolity than its rival, but a few ghastly specimens of Western humor, a la Danbury News, insist upon cropping...
...picturesque structure, built of rough, slate-colored stone, and is set off by a medieval-looking tower after the style of an Italian campanile. Its general symmetry is, in the opinion of some, slightly marred by several excrescences with small spires, that project from the roof and produce a somewhat unpleasant effect upon the near spectator...
...deal in old books, as well as to keep a good assortment of new ones. Mr. King will also take second-hand books to sell on commission if persons prefer to hold their books until they can obtain their own prices for them; and by having an attractive and somewhat popular store, the advantages offered in this line ought to argue plainly in favor of leaving books for sale in the hands of Mr. King, in preference to almost any other place in Cambridge...
...Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Harvard University for the Academical Year 1855-56" reveals some interesting contrasts between Harvard College just before the war and the Harvard College of today. The catalogue is printed by John Bartlett, "book-seller to the university," and in outward appearance is somewhat similar to the catalogues of today...