Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston Symphony Orchestra gave its second concert in Sanders Theatre last evening, to a large and appreciative audience. It was of a somewhat more popular character than the first. The following programme was presented...
...gathered Professor Hill's Rhetoric class. A half dozen young ladies sat about informally while the professor read his lecture. He had just delivered the same lecture to the sophomore class in the college, and adapted it to his present audience by means of frequent parentheses. It was somewhat after this fashion: - 'Unless a man acquires a taste for reading before he goes into business (or a woman before she marries), it cannot be cultivated in afterlife'. . 'The trouble with the writing of you young men is that you have nothing to say. (And the same, I regret...
...length received into the university as an independent factor was originally begun in 1873 with three students, under the title of County College. The Duke of Devonshire, who is chancellor of the university, subsequently permitted the college to assume its present name. It was designed to enable students somewhat younger than ordinary undergraduates to pass through a university course and obtain a university degree, to train in the art of teaching those students who desire to become schoolmasters, and to secure the greatest possible economy in cost as well as time. In these aims it has succeeded. Its students obtain...
...honorable notice of this prominence. In one way the existence of these societies is to be deplored. The membership list is considered to represent the leaders in the special department to which the society is devoted; and such an arbitrary ranking as the society makes creates a somewhat false standard of merit, and is likely to do injustice to those who have been left out of the society by mere chance or carelessness or by the prejudice of individual members...
...opened. For about ten minutes before the hour at which the proceedings were to commence the commotion in the hall was very great. Large numbers of students mounted on the seats, and several free fights between parties of pea-shooters took place. Before the stock of peas got somewhat exhausted the majority of those in the area were forced to put up their umbrellas to protect themselves from the shower from the occupants of the galleries. Lord Rosebery was received by the audience rising to their feet and cheering lustily for a minute or two. Professor Flint opened the proceedings...