Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Senator Henry French Hollis '92, will deliver an address in the Living Room of the Union on Monday evening at 8 o'clock. His subject will be "From One Senator's View Point." Senator Hollis has had a somewhat unusual political career. He started his study of law at the Harvard Law School, but continued it under private instruction. He took up the practice of law in 1893, and soon entered into the state politics of New Hampshire. In 1913, he was elected to the United States Senate on the Democratic ticket; this is a great honor, as New Hampshire...
...this is not to say that it is a weak number. From beginning to end it is distinctly the work of gentlemen who show a commendable, even if somewhat immaturely executed, endeavor to write English worthy of our best traditions. All of us at Harvard may feel justifiable pride in the fact that in these days of so much debased printed English, the young men who edit our college papers keep to standards of literary dignity...
...presupposes two things for success: The permission of the University to count practical work in municipalities or other forms of government for a degree, and the establishment of fellowships enabling college students to take time for such work. Whether or not these moves will be made, will depend somewhat on the men who are interested in the work and respond to Professor Hart's call. At present, it is true, the attractions of municipal or other government are few enough to the trained man. A betterment of conditions must come through those who are deeply interested, and it is from...
...Smith gives a somewhat exuberantly enthusiastic account of the student conference at Kansas City, but even the printer's error of inserting the tail piece several pages before the conclusion cannot conceal the evident sincerity with which it is written...
...team of his services and is excused. Change is not coming like a miracle; the attitude of the undergraduates cannot be metamorphosed in a night; but every move toward the enforcement of probation is a move in the right direction. Enough of them, and perhaps we may come somewhat nearer the Utopia in which college work is awarded its proper place in the scale of importance...