Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...were played the Exeter men won matches counting them 14 points, which gives them the school championship to retain for another year. Exeter also has two men in the semi-finals, C. Herd, the Pacific coast champion, coming through his matches with ease, and J. A. Gee winning with somewhat more difficulty, G. C. Caner, of St. Mark's, last year's runner-up, will be matched against Herd, and A. S. Peabody, of Malden High School will be matched against Gee in the semi-finals on Jarvis Field this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. The final match...
Although the new plan is by no means perfect and may be considered somewhat rigid by many, it is well worth a thorough trial in all of our large undergraduate courses. In fact, it may well be be applied in such courses as History 1, English A and Government 1; where there are several assistants, each of whom usually has his own standard of grading. But if the new plan is applied in its more general phase to courses open to undergraduates, who are competing for scholarship honors, a more uniform system of grading would be established...
...first glance this sentiment appears somewhat startling. But a second thought will show the statement to be absolutely correct in describing the club situation as all Harvard men should wish it to be. In fact the "power" so-called, of clubs at Harvard, is individually so meagre that a New York newspaper recently published three pictures: Yale's Skull and Bones, the Princeton Ivy Club House, and the Harvard Union, under the general heading of influential college societies. To Harvard men the picture of the Union grouped by the side of the Bones house may have generated a strain...
...presented. Mr. Wright is clearly very sensitive to atmosphere, and at times tempted to deal with it to excess, even when it is an essential part of the story. His style would gain in masculinity by a greater restraint in the use of adjectives. In "The Ominous Tract"--a somewhat oracular title--Arthur Wilson has a real story to tell, and tells it with genuine effectiveness. Irving Pichel's "The Passing of Prayer" is lighter and slighter, but with indications of considerable comic power. It hovers on the edge of "smartness", and is not quite unified in tone...
...Seniors, as they are being measured for caps and gowns (somewhat tardily we find), see anything in wearing this traditional academic costume but a pleasing novelty or a foolish tradition. But it is one of the significant customs which emphasizes the age of the College, like the sudden appreciation of the fact that Richelieu was still living when John Harvard gave his foundation fund for the school at "New-towne." Academic gowns originated in English law, for in the fourteenth century our ancestors in the universities at Oxford and Cambridge had apparently fully as varied, and as violent tastes...