Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...There are really two problems bound up in the emergency program of the Shipping Board: first, the securing of large numbers of workmen who have been prepared in trades somewhat similar to those found in the shipyards; second, retention of these men in their tasks for the period of the war. Of the two, the latter is the more difficult one, and involves the task of the special training of men who must be quickly instructed in the great variety of mechanical trades connected with the fabrication and erection of steel ships...
...expression from those two institutions of their views on the matter? Athletics of the stamp advocated by Secretaries Daniels and Baker and by the Intercollegiate Athletic Association do not call for a return to the glamor and expense of the old regime. Briefly they advocate a system somewhat similar to that in use at West Point, minimized running expenses, little practice and a team that represents the institution and which plays numerous outside games with teams. --Yale News
...committee are Cambridge men who are graduates of colleges in this country. Trinity College, the biggest educational institution in Cambridge University, has just appointed as one of its four tutors Gaillard T. Lapsley '93, an American citizen born in Philadelphia. The work of the tutors of Trinity is somewhat similar to that of the dean of college in an American University. They look after and superintend the private life or the undergraduates and are the officials with whom the parents correspond. The move may be said to indicate the genuine reaching out in friendly co-operation towards American universities...
...fall, work was started three seeks later than usual. Besides the handicap of ordinary war conditions, the insertion of a war directory was responsible for much of the delay, for it was desired to get the latest possible information on men in the service. This list is necessarily somewhat inaccurate, though the information is correct to the editors knowledge...
...save coal by advancing all College engagements by one hour. This proposal, put forward by the Student Council, is to be voted on next week by the student body. May I suggest that if the Student Council desires a large affirmative vote, it would do well to explain somewhat explicitly in these columns just how the change of hours would produce the desired economy...