Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...referred to his own connection with athletics during his collegiate days at Yale, and of the deep interest he took in them, especially in boating. He spoke of the clumsy, awkward boats in use at that time, as broad as they were long, modelled somewhat after the old Dutch Burgomaster's wife, in sharp contrast to our arrow like shells. Many of our most distinguished men were during their college course identified with boating interests; such men as President Eliot of Harvard, President McCosh of Princeton, and President Gilman of Johns Hopkins University, all of whom are said to have...
...past semester requesting the discontinuance of the habit of scraping and stamping the feet on the arrival and departure of the professor, and advised instead the practice in vogue elsewhere of rising and standing during the entrance and exit of a favorite instructor. Student custom in Germany varies somewhat in this respect. The professor usually comes in after his audience is assembled and generally leaves before the others withdraw. In many places his coming and going receive no attention unless he be advanced in age, or particularly esteemed. Signs of respect are then shown either by rising and bowing...
...financial success of the eleven we are not yet prepared to speak. The audience at the Princeton game was gratifyingly large, but the minor games were somewhat meagerly attended...
...unfavorable weather with which our foot ball teams are now favored brings to mind the fall of '82, when we met with a similar hindrance from a somewhat too previous snow storm. Many a junior recalls with pride the alacrity with which be, then a mere freshman, stepped forward and lent his and to the good work of relieving Holmes Field of its unwelcome coverlet. Many a junior, too, will remember the sudden increase in alacrity with which he surrendered his shovel to some new comer and silently became absent from the cold field after a mauvaise quarts' hear...
...precedence to the New Haven university, for we learn from the Yale press that an offender has been caught, and safely locked up too. It is a good example, this that has been set for us by our sister college; let us lose no time in following it, though somewhat tardily...