Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ring built in the boxing room, with all the necessary equipment. Lawrence Conley, coach of boxing, reports that he has anywhere from 100 to 130 men out every day working under his supervision. He holds three classes daily, five times a week, and declares that even then he is somewhat over-crowded
This method of selecting the board is somewhat different from that employed last year. At that time, the entire board was chosen directly by the temporary Freshman Executive Council, which consists of the chairmen and treasurers of the various dormitory committees...
...Nock, Fellow of Clare College Cambridge University, who is to speak here in the near future, feels that the Harvard Yard has a unique atmosphere which he finds "charming". In an interview yesterday he declared that Harvard is somewhat more extensive than Cambridge University but seems more a unit. In describing Cambridge, he said, "You stumble on bits of it here and there...
...captained all the gangs in Rome in the enterprise, not of rebuilding his personal fortune, but of leveling all fortunes, murdering all governors, burning a city. He perished "not ingloriously," in "the adventure of death." Because the intelligence of Bolitho is very nearly equal to the purely technical and somewhat Carlylian brilliance of his style as a writer, his individuals bear resemblance to queerly grouped and overstuffed animals in a museum, regarding their audience with dazed and overconfident ferocity. But if the characters are not alive, Author Bolitho's writing does live, very noisily indeed. A journalist...
While the University is struggling with the various phases of the House Plan, and Yale is in process of debating a similar arrangement, it is interesting to regard the somewhat analogus question with which the third member of the extinct alliance is concerning itself. At Princeton the Utility and desirability of an undergraduate center is under discussion. The situation is in some respects similar to that of Harvard. The widening gap between clubmen and nonclubmen makes for the same sort of disintegrating influence as is here ascribed to unwieldy size and minute division into cliques...