Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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When one reads in the Catalogue the description of the prizes which may be contested for annually by members of the University he is apt to be somewhat surprised that there is not a more general interest displayed in competing for them, and that there is not greater distinction for those to whom they are awarded. There are more prizes in academic and scientific subjects offered here than at any other American university, but students of other institutions take a vastly greater interest in what is offered them in this field. Although upwards of fifteen hundred dollars is offered annually...
Ralegh in Guiana, the play to be given in Sanders Theatre, on March 22, was written by Professor Wendell, for private performance in Boston. The play endeavors to set forth, somewhat in the manner of an Elizabethan chronicle history, the events which led to the failure of Sir Walter Ralegh's final effort to secure for England the possession of the country now called Venezuela. These are chiefly recorded in Ralegh's "Discovery of Guiana," and in his "Apology...
...writer of the communication published in another column, in his anxiety to defend his position as a newspaper correspondent, is evidently somewhat prejudiced by his point of view...
...articles recently published in the columns of the CRIMSON have been, to my mind, somewhat misleading, and I should like to call attention to a few facts, in which the writers seem to have been mistaken...
...Varsity crew men left Cambridge yesterday afternoon to take a short holiday before entering upon the spring period of hard work. Several of the crew have been somewhat out of condition...