Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...EDITORS OF THE HERALD : I don't know whether there is really any use in spoiling a good story; but then there is no harm in accuracy, and the papers lately, you know, have been somewhat inaccurate in their statements and conclusions on the freshman Music Hall affair. For, as a matter of fact, the party of men from '85 who attended Mr. Wilde's recent performance did not represent the freshman class, as a class, by any means; and so really the freshman class is quite innocent of either praise or blame in the matter, and, I am sure...
Andrew Lang has written a judicious and delicately worded criticism upon Poe's poetry for the "Parchment Library." It is in general somewhat after the Matthew Arnold school of criticism, which is on the whole high commendation...
Judging from the progress that has been made by American colleges during the last ten years, the newspaper reports of college affairs ten years hence will read somewhat as follows...
They do things better in the West. To be sure, it might be said that the freedom of the press is somewhat infringed upon, but then the majesty of the law must be vindicated at all hazards! At a certain "university" we wot of, whenever the college papers are smitten with a reform fever and begin to cry out for a reform in college administration, the editors are promptly "summoned," and sternly warned to mend their evil ways. If this does not prove effective harsher measures are sometimes adopted; the terrors of suspension are sometimes brought into requisition...
Professor (somewhat astonished): "That is what I have been giving for the last half-hour." Confusion of Mr. B. and corresponding glee of his classmates...