Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...expense of the process is somewhat greater than reforestation by the use of saplings but the reward justifies it, and the apparent success of the Paris method warrants a trial...
...wasteful purchase of duplicates by the different departments of Harvard would be somewhat lessened if all instructors could be made to feel more at home in every branch of the University Library. It is true that they and also their students, when furnished with proper introductions, are usually met with kindly, if somewhat conscious, hospitality. But rather than ask favors, the professor often prefers to buy himself the books he wants. This feeling on his part, however natural, is not conducive to the most profitable use of the funds of the University...
...appreciated the merits of the first piece, Mr. Brock's "The Bank Account"; but it warmed to Mr. Kinkead's satirical farce, "The Fourflushers," and received Mr. E. L. Beach's war-time drama, "The Clod" with really enthusiastic ardor. Thus the twelfth production of the Club, though begun somewhat gloomily, ended as successfully as any,--which is no slight achievement...
...observations are pointed and keen; indeed, such ones as, "The German is perpetually hungry," and, "Akademische Freiheit is the Veritas of the German University," are almost epigrammatic. There is also novelty in Mr. Lockwood's chronicle of his semi-scientific hunting trip in Alaska, though his account suffers somewhat from lack of detailed description and incident. The series of articles on customs in different colleges is represented by one this month on Massachusetts Agricultural College and we are inclined to agree with the author when he suggests that the most distinctive thing about such "distinctive" customs is that they...
...whose worth has been attested by their professors. These clauses are generally understood to mean that it exercises a right of selection according to a man's character and all-round ability from say the sixty-five high stand men in the class. It is understood to elect men somewhat on a basis of character when as a matter of fact it elects them on an almost absolute basis of scholarship--marks being in the long runs, the best indication of scholarship. Consequently the general opinion is often that the Society is short-sighted in its choice...