Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that this year the caps and gowns are to be furnished no earlier than the first of June; there seems, however, a general sentiment in favor of wearing the cap and gown immediately after the Easter recess, as was done last year. In case of objections to wearing a somewhat inconvenient garment, it has been suggested that the cap only should be worn. It has also been suggested that any man wearing a Senior cap should be supposed to bow to any other Senior so attired. Although such a scheme might at first incur some ridicule, at the very least...
...literature it must be remembered that it was not originally written to be read. It must be prepared with regard to its effect when delivered from the pulpit or the rostrum. Taking this fact into consideration, these sermons are readable to an unusual degree. Dr. McKenzie has departed somewhat from the conventional sermon, and he might do so to an even greater extent with benefit...
While it may be true that the writers of today are not college-bred men, the statement that undergraduate literary work fails to attain a higher standard because the would-be writer "grows stale" seems open to doubt. Is not this failure rather due to a somewhat prevailing tendency among young writers to be ambitious to consider subjects which lie outside of their little life experiences, and to which they can at best impart but a supperficial atmosphere? To be concrete, college literature tends to be too ambitious. If the undergradate aspirant would narrow his point of view and condescend...
This course is somewhat more crooked than the old. From the start it runs 1 1-2 miles straight-away at which point it is some 400 feet to the west or right of the old course. It then deflects to the east for 3-4 of a mile and thence is 1 3-4 miles straight-away to the finish, which is just north of the Thames River draw bridge. This course offers a depth of water after the first mile varying from 18 to 50 feet...
...small size of the squad is due partly to the fact that the candidates were somewhat sifted out last fall...