Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number contains two other prose contributions, both of them very short: "My Unknown Foe" is somewhat turgid; the "Hungry Sandwich Man" is an outline descriptive sketch...
Kelton '93, 6, 193 pounds. Rowed against Yale last year. Meets his oar and is somewhat slow at the finish...
...library is 371,255; the total number of pamphlets, 300,863. The number of books used last year was 92,109, as against 84,191 for 1889, 80,906 for 1888, and 74,902 for 1887. The use of cards admitting the holders to the stack has been somewhat restricted owing to the disarrangement of books which was found to result from frequent handling. About 290 books of those reported missing since 1883 are still unaccounted for; 141 of these disappeared from the reserve books and 149 from the stack. The work of cataloguing has fallen somewhat behind, in spite...
...stroke. Harvard men bring their slides and body swing into one motion in the stroke and separate them on the recover. Yale made an innovation last year in not rowing the oar quite in to the body; Harvard did not follow her example and opinions are somewhat divided as to the value of it. Mr. Watson-Taylor does not believe in this mode of finishing. He has watched the rowing at both Yale and Harvard for the past two seasons and on several occasions has coached the Harvard crews...
...increase in the number of students the proportion going into the learned professions has declined. "The superficial examinations which I have been able to make," said he, "go to confirm what, a priori, we should expect; that the-question of the length of the college course must be determined somewhat by considering the class whose culture will not be so well taken care of in their future pursuits as that of the lawyer and clergyman. If business is to absorb the energies of many of our graduates, four years of liberal training hardly seems too much, especially as in many...