Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...call attention to the article on "Foot Ball in Canada," printed in another column. This was written for the CRIMSON by a gentleman on the editorial board of a leading Canadian college paper, the Toronto Varsity. It presents a view of foot ball as played throughout Canada, which is somewhat different from the method of play practiced among us. It also gives a good ides of how much more the game is played there. Inter-collegiate foot ball has been forbidden us for the future, but nothing has been said by the faculty against our playing international matches with...
...mastered the study of Greek, so that his tutor was won't to remark that other boys required a year to accomplish the same end. Of all his father's children, Daniel was, as a boy, the sickliest and most slender, and one of his half-brothers, who was somewhat of a wag. frequently took pleasure in remarking, that "Dan was sent to school because he was not fit for anything else." Even from his boyhood he was an industrious reader of standard authors. and previous to his entering college his favorite books were Addison's Spectator, Butler's Hudibras...
...undergraduates instruction in History and Political Economy covers the usual ground of a complete college course, including an interesting course by Dr H. B. Adams on the Modern State System. The graduate instruction by the seminar method, aiming at thorough and original work in some special line, varies somewhat from year to year. There are courses in the History of Politics, on Finance and Taxation. and on Methods of Administration. The Seminary of American History and Economics during the present year is engaged in investigations in (1) American Institutions of Government, (2) History of Political Economy...
...fortunate undergraduate brethren. But is it not, after all, a pleasing little fiction? What can seem more natural than that the student who, from his position on a paper, is obliged to do tenfold the amount of writing required from his more fortunate fellows, should have his labors lightened somewhat by a regulation of this nature...
...action in question may be somewhat peculiar, but it must be remembered that every person has a right to his own personal opinion, and has, moreover, a right to express this opinion in a meeting which is open to a general discussion of the subjects in hand. The private opinion, however, of a prominent public person will necessarily carry much more weight than the opinion of a private person could ever carry. A private person, as long as he holds his public position, cannot divest himself of a certain degree of authority which is naturally associated with his position. This...