Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...voice in proposing or rejecting them. The faculty, from their close relationship with the students, their intimate knowledge of student-work and student-life should, we think, be competent to regulate and control college government. The statement in regard to "low esteem" for the professors and faculty is somewhat sweeping, although possessing a kernel of truth. It is very much to be regretted that several professors in the last few weeks have been constrained to tell the students with whom they came in contact that the overseers could force the faculty into accepting the recent recommendations...
...south of the Propylaea, and is built on the Pyrgos, a superstructure of the soft rock which the Athenians used in the foundations of their buildings; this Pyrgos rises about thirty feet above the bed-rock of the Acropolis. The time of the erection of the temple is somewhat doubtful, although Bohn advances technical proof tending to show that it belongs to the same period as the Propylaea. Pertelic marble was used in the construction of the temple. The style of architecture, which is lonic, was well illustrated by stereopticon views. Little could be said of the sculptures, because...
...been hoaxed does not dawn upon the reader until the end is reached. The enjoyment of the whole is heightened by the skillful way in which the denouement is managed Under Topics of the Day is "Another's Study in Happiness." It is thoroughly ideal, and, to us, somewhat unsatisfactory. The short sketch, "In the Train," by R. W. Atkinson, is one of the brightest bits of the number. Mr. Zinkeisen, in his "Heine's Pictures of Travel," displays an intimate sympathy with the author, as well as an understanding of his moods and surroundings. "The Difference," a continuation...
...audience must have been somewhat disappointed to hear Miss Ausder Ohe in Liszt's E flat concerto, which she gave last winter. It is a wonderful solo, probably the most brilliant for the instrument. Her abilities as an artist are well known, and though it was her second appearance in the same selection, she received several recalls...
Voted, That in the opinion of this board it is expedient that every undergraduate be required to report in person early every morning, with a moderate and fixed allowance for occasional absences. That attendance at the exercises of each course be more rigidly enforced. That the system of advisers, somewhat as applied to special students, be extended to the freshman class. That the reports of the presence and absence of students be collected daily by monitors and daily entered on the books. That no choice of studies made by a student be valid if it call for more than three...