Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first Advocate is an excellent number. It is good reading from the beginning to the end, or at least nearly to the end. The editorials are delightfully written and very entertaining, somewhat light perhaps, but what one of us is prepared for things serious now? Of the "Two Sketches," the first is rather the more pleasing - it is happier - and there will be time enough for dismals later on. "A Fallen Idol" is good, very good in the beginning. "The dead silence of him who is drinking beer" is full of meaning. The Kodaks are rather entertaining as a whole...
...time no little adverse criticism was heard against the policy adopted. It was claimed that while Yale was getting all the good of very sharp practice games, Harvard was wasting her time over teams which were far too easy for her, and which could not help making her playing somewhat demoralized. But the nine had had experience last year in playing professional teams early in the season, and knew that in the end it was better to begin with small nines and work up to professional teams when they were able to meet them and when the practice would...
...weight felt in the University, would it not be advisable, in order to add finish to the Commencement occasion, if the Law men who attend the exercises should wear the cap and gown? Amidst to much of the latter paraphernalia, two dozen dress suits and silk hats may look somewhat lonesome. Certainly, from their number, they will leave upon friends and spectators, who see all the graduates together, an impression of inharmoniousness and incompleteness and the regret that the cap and gown had not entirely prevailed. Quite possibly, too, the Law men themselves might in the end, as some...
...clearly the places in Cambridge of interest to strangers and giving valuable information to one visiting them. Not to those only who are unacquainted in Cambridge will this book prove useful, for it contains many little facts of interest, unknown to a large part of those who feel themselves somewhat at home here. It also contains among others several cuts of the Longfellow house, Elmwood, and James Russell Lowell...
...features of the meeting will be the Scratch Mile, the Limited Mile Handicap and a team race between the Springfield Bicycle Club of Sprinfield, and the Press Cycle Club of Boston, Berle being on one team and Taylor on the other. The Harvard team has been somewhat weakened by the injuries received on the smash up in the final heat of the bicycle race at New York last Saturday...