Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hoped that contributors to the columns of the CRIMSON will make more use of the drop-boxes, as the practice of applying to the officers of the paper has become somewhat annoying...
...door. The proctors should remember that their office is not to quell disturbances annoying to themselves only, as much as it is to stop everything that may call forth reasonable complaints from anyone in the building. They should remember that if they have to put up with somewhat from their overhead or next-door neighbors, so have all occupants of the building. Complaints cannot be made of all of these annoyances; they are inseparable from a common domicile. Democracy is the rule of our dormitories. Surely our college authorities would not like to reduce our lives to the hum-drum...
...than one-sixth of the present number, and with the graduates then connected with the university, the whole number reaches 386. The vacations are "four weeks and and ten days from commencement; seven weeks from the fourth Friday in December, and two weeks from the third Friday in May." Somewhat at variance with the present state of recesses. Such is the character of the book, and it will certainly pay any one who has a spare moment when in the library to look it over, and think that he is looking upon signatures written by hands that have been mouldering...
...first number was somewhat marred by unevenness and restlessness but upon the whole, was a very faithful rendition of the favorite overture. The trumpet-call in the distance would have been more effective had the instrument been tuned to the same pitch taken by the orchestra. The same unsteadiness was also noticeable in the second number. This defect, it is true, prevails in most of the very good orchestras, but seldom to such a degree as in the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Notwithstanding the lack of precision of some of the performers, the second number was well given and deserved more...
...Royal Highness, Ruprecht I, is celebrating the founding of his new university by a grand procession through the streets of Heidelberg. Here comes the herald, clad in velvet, and bearing aloft the yellow banner and black eagles of the Prince. Then follow four trumpeters, braying right lustily, albeit somewhat dolorously, upon their slender brass horns. Six knights in armor, with iron helmets and prodigious spears are followed by a company of foot soldiers, whose antique swords and oral shields call Walter Scott vividly to mind. A group of little children, clad in white, and with wreaths of flowers on their...