Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harvard had a positive scoring punch, though the team's play on the defensive and, for that matter, on the offensive, was somewhat ragged and unfinished. Princeton lacked the scoring power which she has been promising to develop these many years. A first class defence and a good kicking game have been Princeton's chief assets ever since football was modernized. But to win consistently something more than these assets is required...
...ruminating on the poetry of Miss Lowell, Mr. McComb rejoices that the enlightened have been won over to vers libre, and that dreary disputations about form have ended. This seems somewhat during. In the first place it implies that vers libre is an innovation, whereas as far back as Milton--but that is neither here nor there. And in the second place isn't form all-important anyway? For snatches of life, for casual comments, for detached thoughts that would not be improved by reaching symmetrical harmony, vers libre may be quite in keeping. But that is only saying that...
...business here, in the business of training ourselves to take a more responsible part in the life of the country. Our interest in Harvard University extends to its environment. What are our qualifications? We can read and write the English language with reasonable facility; we are somewhat familiar with the Constitution and political system of the United States and of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; we have been brought up amidst New England traditions which are apparently better preserved and more revered in the West than in Greater Boston; we think of Massachusetts political questions in the light of Massachusetts history...
...University cross-country team will have a light work-out over the Cemetery course this afternoon at 4 o'clock before taking the 7.45 o'clock train from the South Station for Ithaca. Tomorrow afternoon the squad will be taken over the new Cornell course which is somewhat over five miles in length...
...pages regularly for several years the Monthly, through its November issue, appears to be now clothed in a staid and homely sobriety which is at once grateful and disappointing; grateful because it speaks careful thought and meticulous expression; disappointing nevertheless, because the impression it leaves is one of somewhat ponderous mediocrity. We should gladly excuse graver faults if the aims of the magazine had been higher. One of its editors used to say to candidates, "Now go home and pour some hot tar into that story." With the exception of two very significant political utterances--Mr. Allinson's excellent communication...