Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lecture on the History and Methods of Classical Study, by Prof. Allen in Sever 14, 11 A. M. These lectures, to be given on Saturdays during the first half year, are intended for the guidance of those who have a somewhat extended course of study in classics. Any student who is taking courses in Greek or Latin is at liberty to attend them...
...ingenuity or patience to work out for themselves in a few weeks a satisfactory method of taking down the most important points of any course, for example, in science or history. In most cases indeed no satisfactory method is arrived at even after four years of experiment. It seems somewhat strange, therefore, when we consider how much stress is laid nowadays upon the use of laborsaving devices in departments both of mental and of material labor, that so little attention on the whole is paid to this subject. It can justly be said indeed that many of our courses...
...colleges," and he estimates that there are about two hundred essentially "college papers" now published, with an average circulation of about five hundred copies. The author also shows rare discernment when he remarks,-speaking of the "University Quarterly"-"its affairs were wound up without loss to its conductors-a somewhat rare circumstance in the death of a college journal." He also speaks in the highest terms of the "Lampoon,"-"the success that attended "Lampy's effort" in view of the usual fate of American humorous journals, is good evidence of the excellence of its work. Many of its bon mots...
...umbrellas appear on the bulletin board at Memorial makes plain to everyone, and particularly to those who have been "borrowed" from, the necessity of some safe method of caring for umbrellas left there. As it is now, a man either leaves his umbrella in the stand outside, with the somewhat unpleasant consciousness that the chances are about one in five he will find it "borrowed" on his return, or else he carries it, wet and dripping, into the dining room with him. Truly it seems as though some remedy were imperative. Cannot the board of managers do some thing...
...time. If Harvard was a clergyman educated at Cambridge and following the fortune of other clergymen, came to Massachusetts in the early period, he was probably a Puritan of their stamp, that is. not a dissenter. Puritan ministers of that day are represented in pictures as wearing a somewhat closely fitting cloak, covering a cassock, with a broad linen collar and a skull cap. No mistake could be made in regard to the garments covering the lower part of body...