Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...last year, the Dean says: "Inquiry into the origin and record" of these men "yields no clear explanation of their failure; it shows, however, that, if public schools contributed to the Freshman class their usual proportion of between thirty and forty per cent., they succeeded somewhat better than private schools in sending pupils who weathered the Freshman year. Inquiry shows further that, students from private schools in and about Boston have in College peculiar social distractions...
...present policy of the British government in regard to the war in South Africa should receive the full support of the Parliament and people of England." The Harvard team supported the negative, and won through presenting a more logical case, and through superior rebuttal. The Brown debaters were somewhat nervous in rebuttal and failed to meet several of Harvard's arguments, while the chief strength of the Harvard team lay in effective refutation. The Harvard debaters were too much confined to notes, but their delivery was superior to that of the Brown team. The decision of the judges...
...Somewhat more than a hundred thousand Boer women and children have been driven from their homes and have been herded together in camps like those established by General Weyler in Cuba. For a considerable time the families of those still in the field were given only half rations, with the idea that the men, seeing their wives and children in a starving condition, would be driven to submission. Even in England this policy was so bitterly denounced that it had finally to be abandoned. The policy of extermination, however, whether the result of deliberation or indifference, has been continued...
...University hockey team defeated Columbia Saturday night at the St. Nicholas Rink, New York, by the score of 4 to 3, in an exciting, but poorly played game. Columbia was somewhat superior in team work and, except for the fact that Harvard was more brilliant individually, might very easily have reversed the score. Harvard made probably the weakest showing of the season, while Columbia developed unexpected strength and showed the results of very able coaching...
Among the contributions in verse the most elaborate is "In the House of the Poet," by A. D. Ficke. Somewhat vague and fantastic, it is musical and gracefully done. "Holworthy Christmas Eve," a firelight reverie by L. Warner, and a quatrain, "Venus," by H. L. Warner are deserving of mention. "The Ancient Lovers," verses by W. Bynner, two editorials and a book review complete the number...