Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...work of the Freshman crews has improved somewhat, but the first crew does not yet set on an even keel and the men are slow at the catch. The order has been kept, throughout, the same as last week. The second crew is far more ragged than the first, and at times rows poorly together...
...part of President Eliot's last annual report, just published in the Graduates' Magazine, there is a paragraph which it seems to me deserves consideration from a somewhat different standpoint. Speaking of the increase of private dormitories and the large number of students living outside of College buildings, the President says, "An experience of 270 years with dormitories has demonstrated that they are not good property for the College, it having proved impossible to earn on them so good an income as the mass of general investments of the University yields. The President and Fellows have not built a dormitory...
...improvement has been more rapid during the last few days than previously, but as yet no long rows have been taken on account of the delay in getting onto the water this year. The crew has also been somewhat handicapped lately on account of the indisposition of Captain Bacon and Richardson...
...satisfactory style, despite the fact that they were in the 1905 shell, which was not rigged to suit the needs of the men individually. At stroke Morgan showed some improvement over his performances early in the week and Severance at number 7 seemed to have lengthened out his stroke somewhat. The men got fairly well together at times and the crew as a whole showed great promise. Richardson was still absent from his seat at 5, but was replaced by Faulkner...
Yesterday afternoon the University and second crews went out on the river for the first time this season, somewhat later than last year, when the crews were launched on February 19. Both crews used an old barge, which they boarded from the shore near the Weld Boat Club. The work for each eight consisted in rowing twice downstream to the Western avenue bridge and back...