Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With the War and the World Series going on simultaneously, the American public is somewhat confused; it doesn't know which interests it more. To look or not to look at the sporting page, that is the question. The people of this nation have long been accustomed to make the week of the World Series an informal holiday when business, family, and other conventionalities become matters of secondary importance...
These early figures show an enrolment of only 2000 men as compared with 3300 in the university last year. Although the next few days may bring the number somewhat higher, the loss will never-the-less be large. In this falling-off, the college has suffered especially, having only some 800 students as compared with 1502 last year. These are divided as follows: Senior class, 100; Junior class, 175; Sophomore class, 250; and Freshman class...
Only 458 men have registered for the two course as yet, a very small number even though the early information in regard to them was somewhat indefinite. Registration, will be open at last until October 1 and men expecting to join should go to Military Headquarters in University Hall (open from 9 to 5 o'clock daily), where all information can be obtained and legitimate changes in courses can be attended to. The Faculty has given the committee on the Choice of Electives the discretion to waive the rules of concentration and distribution if necessary and no additional fee will...
...return of so many of the old boys, and the advent of the new boys, gives to the Square somewhat of the same appearance that it has had for ten generations of college classes...
...threats which have been uttered at occasions by public speakers or newspapers that now, when the nation is at war, is the time to advance the interests of any one class, relying on the weakening power of Government to quell internal disorder, have an ugly sound. Public speakers are somewhat inclined to wax grandiloquent in the rostrum or over the after-dinner coffee and cigars, dreaming that their words make the nation shake. The newspapers are the German papers, which still consider themselves aggrieved, and continue to cry out against "perfidious Albion," who is our ally...