Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...letter to the Harvard Board of Overseers--with its entertaining cartoon--deals with an engrossing topic. Everywhere increases in salaries for teachers are being talked of. Now come undergraduates to the rescue. Among the conclusions that no wise man will fail to draw are that students are after all somewhat interested in the training they get, and that the cruel undergraduate, though he may ride an instructor to death in the classroom, is human enough not to want the poor fellow's children to die in a garret. The last paragraph is perhaps out of place. "At Oxford," said...
...provide perfectly free opportunity for all students in the University to begin an acquaintanceship, at any rate, with standard works of classic and modern musical literature. The feeling was that no one should claim to be a cultivated man of letters unless his general knowledge of music was somewhat on a par with that which is reasonably taken for granted by the world in such other arts as poetry, prose, painting, and architecture. To this end the alumni subscribe each year a thousand dollars and more so that the expositions may be of the highest order of excellence in having...
...plus the enrolment of 68 in the regular session, makes the total registration of the Law School 300, as compared with 857 in 1916-17. As students who do not enter the School at this time may register as late as February 15, the present enrolment will undoubtedly be somewhat increased...
...Barnum Was Right" will not be given, contrary to previous announcement. It was thought at first that this play, which was about to be produced in 1917 when hostilities commenced could be used, but the plan had to be abandoned, as it was found that the production was somewhat out of date. The Hasty Pudding is the only one of the undergraduate clubs of its type which is producing theatricals this year, both the D. U. and the Pi Eta Clubs having decided not to give their annual performances...
...these days of Teuton plots and Sinn Feiners. Mr. Leon Gordon, formerly of the Henry Jewett Players, took the part of Bert, the Don Juan of the trio, the man "with a girl in every trench." His interpretation of the part was faultless but he suffered from being somewhat too immaculate for a Tommy at the front...