Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colleges all over the country are watching the new experiment with interest. Minnesota doubts whether the idea would work "superimposed on an educational system such as ours which has previously been somewhat paternalistic." The Brown Daily Herald and The Cornell Sun edutorially refuse to predict the outcome of Harvard's plan but they are agreed upon its possibilities and hopeful for its success. There is apparently no reason why the precarious brittleness of experimental ice upon which Harvard is treading should not harden into a solider basis strong enough to support the infinite number of educational institutions which...
...Harvard Fund Council announced last night. The Council has published and mailed to all former members of the College and the several Graduate Schools the second issue of "The Yard", a photographic supplement, the first number of which was published in December. The supplement consists of four pages, somewhat larger in size than the CRIMSON biweekly photographic section. The second issue was devoted more to photographs of individuals prominent in Harvard affairs and less to new buildings and athletics than the first. The fourth page of each number contained advertisements which virtually defrayed the entire cost of publication and mailing...
...morning in Harvard 3. When he tried to think what he really knew about Palmerston, the humble writer of this column found himself at the edge of a void, or rather an abyss in which he could see only one object. This was an image of a man who somewhat resembled the Vagabond's great-grandfather attired in the traditional costume of John Bull. This was his childhood impression of the great British prime minister; it is the impression which still rests with him and probably always will...
Several of the courses to be offered, this year are somewhat different from those of previous years. One is a course on Public Utility Management and Economics by Philip Cabot '94 and Deane W. Malott '23 of the Harvard Business School. Another is one of Museum Problems and Management by Professor Paul J. Sachs '00, Associate Director of the Fogg Art Museum...
...weeks of the college year to be free of all classes or any set exercises whatever! And this in addition to the accustomed vacations at Christmas and Easter, though the latter appear somewhat shortened. Was ever a more radical change ordained by Harvard in the undergraduates' calendar since the college was founded? Very evidently the decision rests, however, upon the authorities...