Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...West Point, Cowan, at third, played the best game. Craig was batted out of the box and was replaced in the sixth inning by Mumma, who proved somewhat more effective...
...form of a letter written to a saddler of Soissoas, then at Paris, by his apprentice, describing the siege and capture, by the king's forces, of the town of Soissons, which is in sympathy with the Duke of Burgundy. Though the apprentice himself remains throughout a somewhat colorless onlooker, he manages to give us a striking account of a fifteenth-century siege, with its excitement and its horrors. In this story, too, there is sensation, but it is not of a morbid kind...
Harvard won the second game with Dartmouth by the score of 7 to 6 on Holmes Field, yesterday afternoon. The game was loosely played on both sides, and both pitchers were hit rather freely, though Paine was somewhat the steadier. Harvard has hardly played worse this season. Besides the six errors there was much ill-judged playing, particularly in base-running, two opportunities to score being lost by rishking too much...
...chorus are now perfectly familiar with their parts and capable of making the most of the play. The principals are all fairly good, but Schurz as the poor musician, Woodruff as Katrina, Miller as the villain, and Parker as the burgomeister, did especially well. The chorus are still somewhat awkward in their movements, but this is chiefly on account of their number...
...hardly up to the standard, certainly not as good as last week's issue Spring, the Junior dinner and the vacation are treated in a rather happy vein editorially. The centre picture, "Harvard after dark," by A. K. Moe '97, is a very creditable bit of work in a somewhat different vein from the general run of Lampoon illustrations. The "Constitution of the Guff Club," and "A Hunting Song," the latter presented as an extract from "Ralegh in Guiana," are both clever hits and funny, a statement that cannot truthfully be made of the remaining contributions that make...