Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...super-refined character, but I am sure that more than one man felt that the bounds of common decency were trespassed by a part of the entertainment of last Thursday evening. I refer to the performance of four negro comedians, who, responding to applause elicited by a selection somewhat more grotesque than such performers commonly use, appeared on the stage dressed in pseudo-military uniforms, carrying our national flag, and singing a song certainly not unpatriotic in sentiment but robbed of any patriotic inspiration by the manner of the singers. May a Freshman suggest that such a performance is hardly...
...Palmer's letter in the CRIMSON of March 17 is interesting but subject to dispute. His scientific division of the ways in which classics should be taught appears somewhat obscure and doubtful. Why may not a student follow more than one point of view in reading an author if that author deserves such a consideration? When a man climbs a mountain, whether he is a botanist, a geologist, or a mere climber, he must have one look at the vegetation, another at the ground, and another at the vistas about him. If he fails to appreciate any of these three...
...prospects for the University track team in the spring show that it will be somewhat unbalanced: weak in the field events but unusually strong in the track events. In the short sprints there will be E. A. Teschner '17, who won first place against Yale in both dashes last spring. He will bear the brunt of the work but will be helped out by W. Moore '18 and E. E. Silver '18. In the 440-yard dash W. Willcox, Jr., '17 will be the mainstay. He won the quarter-mile in the Yale meet last year in the phenomenal time...
...speaks the Oracle, under the caption, "A Blow to Harvard," and thereby shows an unparalleled capacity for sweeping generalization. But cooler and more sensible persons will not take fright. It is, indeed, somewhat ironical that it should be necessary for President Lowell to defend for himself that freedom of speech which he has so firmly insisted upon for both Faculty and students. And it is as unfortunate as it is unaccountable that some Harvard men, by their published utterances, should attempt to foster the impression, expressly denied by himself, that he speaks for the University...
...sonnet on "Nahant," Mr. W. A. Norris conveys his impression with some vividness, and in his "Lines" he re-works, not unpoetically, a somewhat familiar thought. Mr. A. Putnam, in his "Retrospect," gives one--perhaps mistakingly--the feeling that he is putting together cleverly but mechanically a poetical puzzle picture made of pieces sawed out of other men's poems. There is no suggestion of his having had anything to express that insisted on being uttered--though this criticism applies to a good deal of the verse in the present number. Mr. Sanger's "Panama Canal," though less imaginative than...