Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cent or nearly two-fifths of the Senior Class are in social clubs, as shown by the Album life-blanks, indicates that the proportion of club members at Harvard has varied little in the last few years. A Student Council committee on clubs estimated in May, 1927, that somewhat more than one third of the upperclassmen were in clubs. The fact that more Seniors than Juniors or Sophomores are included in clubs points to an essential agreement between the two calculations...
...Somewhat surprising was their action, for it was thought that merger, activities would be confined for the present to the consolidation of the 16 branches within Presbyterianism itself, while "conversations" were carried on with Methodists and Episcopalians. Precipitation to the larger movement came during the assembly's last day, when the report of the Department on Co-operation and Church Union was being droned out to listening delegates...
...close of the week the market, encouraged by a $232,000,000 drop in loans to brokers, rallied somewhat and selling of the Durant stocks became less pronounced. Meanwhile Mr. Durant, cabled in distant Paris concerning his reported losses, replied: "These silly and unfounded rumors have given me a big laugh...
...ship is at present being overhauled, and it is planned to turn it in early in the fall, when another plane will be purchased, a Travelair like the old one, but somewhat more expensive, which, it is expected, will be kept by the Club for several years. The new plane will be flown by members of the Club to Boston from Wichita, Kansas, the home of the manufacturers, early in the fall. Those who will probably make the trip are H. P. Moon '32 and H. H. Timken '31, both experienced pilots...
...unusually generous bequest of Mr. Charles H. Ditson to the muscle department puts at its disposal a relatively large annual income. The terms of the gift allow a wide range of usefulness for the money and will give an opportunity to the Music department for varying somewhat its present functions...