Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Heberlein had found what seemed a complete skull, evidently of the same kind of creature introduced to science by the Dubois fragments - pithecanthropus erectus, the Java apeman. The assumed bones were attached to a spongy stone lump of volcanic origin. The crown was distorted somewhat; the eyesockets bulged abnormally...
...problem extends beyond the somewhat academic audiences who read names of Bach and Mozart engraved upon the pillars of Symphony Hall as they listen to the concise and logical eloquence of our forensic champions. There have been Debating Unions and Debating Councils, there have been amalgamations and divisions, there has been everything possible except debating. The latest move has been the incorporation of the Debating Union with the Harvard Union, accomplished last spring. Few undergraduate moves of recent years have been more justly applauded, but even in this house of still born dreams and institutions, few have proved more barren...
...there seems to be no excellent reason why this should be the case. One flurry of last fall, when popular interest was seized literally by the horns, was enough to prove that we are not congenitally unforensic, that we are capable of that collective adventuring along paths somewhat dubiously intellectual but undoubtedly attractive which lies at the heart of the Cambridge or of the Oxford Union. And it is hardly to be said that we lack that intellectual immaturity which is a prerequsite for debating skill...
...very fast race for the early part of the season, the University cross country team won its initial meet yesterday 21 to 34 from the Holy Cross harriers. The victory was somewhat unexpected as the Harvard line-up contained only four experienced...
Designed especially to assist those members of the undergraduate body who, wishing to attend occasional lectures on subjects of cultural value in which they are interested, are yet unable to get notification of them on time, the Student Vagabond will, it is believed, by thus somewhat extending its field, prove to be even more invaluable than it was last year...