Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second half Harvard rallied somewhat, and held Yale down to 3 goals from the floor. During this half Amberg made five goals from fouls...
...meeting last night of the dormitory relay captains the men for the various teams were not definitely chosen, because some of the captains were absent and others were undecided. It was found necessary to re-arrange the dormitories somewhat, owing to a scarcity of men for some of the teams...
...corresponding but somewhat more sweeping regulation at Princeton indicated perhaps somewhat more clearly one phase of the question; namely, that the college does not desire to encourage undue absenteeism from work. The Princeton regulation...
...pretty pitch of suspense, and comes near avoiding altogether the anti-climax which one has come to anticipate in tales of horror; while L. Grandgent's "The Everlasting Hills," after a highly conventional Class-Day opening, develops in a more original fashion; and only needed more space and a somewhat subtler analysis to be a psychological study of more than average interest. The critic of Alfred Noyes displays most of the vices of immature criticism: a lack of discernible method, a tendency merely to make phrases out of the well-worn vocabulary of current criticism, and a need to consider...
...that Lost Twilght by the Sea," by W. H. Wright, the unreality of which keeps it from being as mysterious and improper as one fears it was meant to be; "A Lover to his Too Docile Lady," three neatly turned stanzas on a conventional theme; and, finally, the somewhat ambitious "Sea Lovers" of H. Hagedorn, Jr. This last piece has passages, which, in spite of some tantalizing obscurity, show a quite remarkable control of blank verse and a simulation of emotion so successful as almost to make one believe...