Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...necessary to begin the erection of a large portico-front to the main entrance on the middle of the south side, and to transfer to it the staircases, which are now wholly insufficient to accommodate the stream of visitors. At the same time it will greatly relieve the now somewhat barren facade of the building...
...congratulate the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality upon the highly successful concert of last evening. Nor let us forget the Banjo Club of which the university existence is now assured. The only criticism which need be made to the programme as a whole is that it was perhaps somewhat too long. The experiment made by the Pierian is very marked and its work was strong throughout. The advent of the Banjo Club as a co-partner in the work of the concert was highly relished by the audience, if judgment may be made from the prolonged applause which greeted...
...journals which aspire to some degree of literary excellence. It must be known to our contemporary that a Press Association is already in existence between the three daily publications of Yale, Princeton and Harvard. Therefore, in view of the facts as we regard them, the Tuftonian's suggestion is somewhat ill-timed...
...often. When any of the teams are winners, an extra call for funds is made so as to present them with trophies. The amount spent for athletics by Yale men, individually, cannot, of course, be computed, but it is safe to figure that it would carry the yearly aggregate somewhat beyond the $25,000 mark. - Boston Herald...
...half of the game was not foot-ball, but simply twenty-two men skating about on Jersey mud in the darkness. And yet on the other hand Yale made a larger score throughout the fall than Princeton, and has beaten her opponents each time more easily. It therefore seems somewhat unfair to make absolutely no distinction between the two, and we think the convention in its two resolutions has perhaps done the best thing it could. Yale certainly has not won the championship of 1886 and yet she has played a better game of foot-ball than any other college...