Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...physical strength are to be taken into consideration. Should the canoe be desired for use along the seaboard or on large lakes, a sailing canoe of the Nautilus or Rob Roy types, a good sea-boat and one easy to manage, will not aurally be selected. These canoes are somewhat heavy and are not easy to transport on land as it is not supposed that there will be much need of that kind of work. On the contrary, if the canoe is intended for inland use on lakes, rivers and for general service, lightness is of primary importance...
...with a sail, the wooden canoe is in some respects to be preferred, as it is somewhat stauncher and will not so easily upset, moreover, it is easier to get right side up after a capsize, a quality which the canoeist soon learns to appreciate...
...This learning by heart, which has occupied such a prominent place in the work of these courses, although offering many advantages to the student of the French language, has been the means of keeping many men away from the courses. The action of the French department in decreasing this somewhat disagreeable work will be appreciated by the students in the increased attendance. French 8 will be continued upon the same plan on which it is now conducted, and is intended especially for extra men. The books read during this year will...
...consequence of this change we come before our readers this morning as the DAILY CRIMSON. Several reasons have led us to make this alteration ; the fact that the CRIMSON is an older name, and on that account one more firmly connected with the college and its institutions, than the somewhat complex title we have been bearing ; the fact that crimson is the college color, and the agreement, based on reasons such as the foregoing, that was entered into when the two papers, the Herald and the Crimson were consolidated...
...beginning of Moscow by its desperate inhabitants after its capture in 1812 by Napoleon, checked the progress of the university somewhat ; the museums and all the buildings fell a prey to that disastrous conflagration. Soon, however, the losses were made good, and the university regained its former prestige...