Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...This somewhat radical change has been due to the absence of Professor Hill. The department has been compelled to double up since his departure, and it has seemed more satisfactory to divide the work required in English A among the instructors than to ask that one man should do it all. Whether or not the change spoken of will be in force after Professor Hill comes back, is an unsettled question...
...Kodaks in this number are of the average quality. The verse, a ballade on "A Fan, Painted by Wattean" and "Love and the Sea" are satisfactory, the ballade being somewhat the better...
...body inoperative. It seemed, moreover, as we have been told, that Harvard being a University, it would be a slur on the earnest spirit of the students if extra days were added to a recess merely because there are very few recitations to attend to. This latter argument seems somewhat weak. Saturday afternoon has always been considered the proper time for recreation, surely no one can be expected to work on Sunday, so that men are called upon to give up two whole days at home in order to do regular work on Saturday morning...
There are various other changes of greater or less importance in the other departments. The make-up of the catalogue is somewhat changed in view of the grouping of three departments under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Full importance is given to the Graduate School which attempts are being made to make as attractive as possible by the concentration there of all available scholarships...
...been thoroughly advertised so it is expected that a large number of people will witness the game. The prizes are valuable, consisting of a silver cup to each member of the victorious team. The field is to be set one hundred and twenty yards long by sixty wide, somewhat larger than usual to insure a good passing game and to prevent the ball from going out of play so often...