Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Union will hold a competition for membership tonight in Sever 11. There will be a regular debate, with four principal disputants, before the competition, the recent inter-club debate having shown that five-minute speeches really gain in interest from having been preceded by a somewhat longer discussion. This arrangement also offers to candidates an excellent opportunity to show what they can do in rebuttal. The question is: "Resolved, That Japan should be given equal treaty rights with other nations." Principal disputants: S. H. Foster L. S. and L. T. Hildreth '96 for the affirmative; H. L. Belisle...
...would have supervision over the courses and in general over the methods of instruction, and could prevent abuse of privilege by holding in reserve the right of examination. By these means there would be a chance of securing a sound education for boys, and so of leaving the College somewhat more free in the exercise of its ideal functions...
This is doubtless somewhat unjust to the elementary education as it is at present. The evils above mentioned have not been newly recognized, and already much has been done by earnest men to remedy them. But such reform takes time. Many classes must still suffer from the faults of their early training. There is promise for the future, though, in the steady decrease in the ages of successive freshman classes. Since 1889 this decrease has been only once interrupted, when in both 1892 and 1893 the average age was eighteen years and eleven months. This year again it has gone...
...varsity baseball practice yesterday afternoon was varied by a game between the first and second nines. The men on the second nine were changed about somewhat, and at the beginning of the practice simply fielded while the first nine took turns at the bat. Later in the afternoon a regular game began, each side making the usual three outs. The batting of the first nine was on the whole encouraging. L. A. Frothingham and J. Wiggin watched the practice...
...current number of the Advocate, appearing with a somewhat surprising but none the less commendable promptness, completes the 58th volume of the paper's existence...