Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubtless a number of students will feel somewhat lost the first time that the sustaining hand of supervision is with drawn. But if university men, particularly the upper classmen most affected, cannot use a two or three week period of reading to advantage after the subjects have been opened up to them by lectures or by tutorial conferences, there is manifestly something stultifying in our former methods of instruction. The faults that will be shown by experience to come through the use of the reading period will quite possibly be those of a too elaborate effort on the part...
...Department of Government has generally accepted as a working formula, therefore, the addition of about a third to the ordinary course assignments, or perhaps a half in cases where the readings assigned are of a somewhat lighter nature than those ordinarily given. Lists of the books required for especially heavy use, have been restricted as much as possible to whole volumes. These lists and the assignments have been prepared in the way which is suggested by the Library Committee and by the Committee on Instructions, and which Dean Hanford has clearly outlined in his general exposition of the plan...
...current number of the Advocate Mr. Robeson Bailey, one of the editors, contributes a paper (with the somewhat unidiomatic title "Dilemma Dispelled") in which he attempts to define the Advocate's policy. He seems to feel that this requires explanation--one almost suspects him of feeling that some apology is necessary for the fact that the Advocate exists at all. To be an editor of a college "humorous" magazine, he sugegsts, is to have, among one's fellow undergraduates, a considerable position and prestige; to be an editor of a college "daily" is to acquire not only this, but also...
...current number of the Advocate suggests, with two exceptions, that the editors are somewhat disposed to play safe. Mr. Stout, in "The Keepers of the Light", contributes an exceptionally good story: swift, idiomatic, colorful, with a good deal of sense of character. His style is perhaps too nervous and choppy--the sentences too persistently short and periodic, but it is a sound story, and a vivid one. And Mr. Barnett gives us some extremely readable, and sometimes witty, theatre-notes. Both of these contributors write as if they did it with pleasure, and as if they weren't afraid...
...Padua three Jugoslav students "asked for it" by loudly and arrogantly singing a Jugoslav anthem, to which, it was alleged, they somewhat foolishly added insults to Italy, Fascism, Mussolini, always a dangerous procedure in Italy these days. Only the prompt intervention of the police saved these foolhardy youths from a fate that would not have stopped short of cudgelings and castor...