Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...season for the Maine team there has been no way to judge of their relative strength. Five of the men who played on the Maine team last year, when Harvard won by the score of 23 to 0, are in the line-up today. The Maine team is somewhat lighter this year and is further handicapped by the loss of Captain Bennett, tackle, and Bearce, halfback, who are out of the game on account of injuries...
...short sprints. Work in practicing starts will begin today. The candidates for the cross country team will begin practice the first of next week. All the distance men are expected to report. The candidates will be divided into two squads, one for the faster men and another for those somewhat slower. The runs will be short at first--probably about two or three miles. This distance will gradually be increased...
...whole the linemen covered their ground and worked together, much better than in the scrimmages of the past week. Of the guards McFadon did some good work, but Pierce was somewhat, too aggressive. The ends were rather slow in getting down the field, but O'Brien secured two good tackles, and both Hall and Grant made a creditable showing. As Starr received a slight injury to his ankle on Thursday, Newhall was tried at quarterback and ran the team well...
...debate was held in Sanders Theatre on May 5. The University team won by analyzing the question clearly, selecting three cardinal points and working them into a solid argument for its position. The Yale team, instead of seizing on a few cardinal points, made a number of somewhat scattering arguments, no one of which was really driven home. In delivery, the Harvard speakers were more straightforward, earnest and convincing. Their precise line of argument was not met by the Yale men, who, although more mature and finished in their speaking were interior to the Harvard team in intensity and drive...
...have enumerated in a previous letter. It also became necessary to adopt some settled policy in regard to the minor sports, as their number was increasing (three new ones have come into existence this year) and experience has shown that the money assistance granted to them in a somewhat haphazard fashion was growing rapidly in amount...