Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...taking a somewhat longer course, the '88 coxswain brought his crew into smooth water, under the lea of the wall, thus securing a great advantage over the other crews...
Smith, '89, is a fair first baseman, but is slow. He is improving somewhat in his batting...
...Professorship of Christian morals be filled at once. As is well known, this chair has been vacant since the resignation of Dr. Peabody a few years ago; and as the religious services of the university having no one whose special business it was to look after them, have been somewhat irregular. It is to be hoped that filling this chair will deepen the religious feeling among the students at large, by giving more consistency and coherence to our services. Then too a man like Dr. Peabody, as has been seen, could, in his position, exercise a very strong and beneficial...
...very long ago college students received no official encouragement to enter into researches concerning theatrical matters. But things have changed somewhat. Mr. Bronson Howard, the leading American dramatist, has been telling the Harvard boys how to write plays, and Mr. Henry Irving is expected soon to tell the Oxford boys how to act them, while the Princeton boys have a prosperous dramatic club of their own, which gives public performances with great eclat. - Harpers Weekly...
...gymnasium now presents a somewhat deserted appearance...