Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While the dorm common rooms and the Yard Program have somewhat decentralized an already amorphous freshman activity program, the Union is still the center of most of the purely freshman extra-curricular ventures. The Freshman Council, a relatively powerless group which often attracts a large group of power-minded people, is generally in charge of the Union activities, although actual execution of the programs rests with the Secretary of the Union...
Though no longer a great force for democracy or the center of anyone's existence, the Union still manages to hold a definite, if somewhat subordinate place in Harvard life. When the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs suggested several years ago that the Union be converted into an all College Student Union, cries of pain were heard in the Yard. Freshmen rallied to the defense of their Great Dining Hall, vigorously extolling its importance and proclaiming there were those who love it. One wing has been completely expropriated by the Varsity Club and the band has the part...
Resting peacefully in a tattered red book which lies in reverence and dust somewhere high in the stacks of Widener are ten wistful and somewhat historical little words: "We earnestly request contributions from all members of the University...
Competition arose to test the newfound sense of journalistic purpose. In 1894 the Daily News was founded which enjoyed a brief but respectable history, and suffered in a bitter and somewhat violent rivalry with the entrenched CRIMSON. The new-comer finally folded in 1895, and loyal Crimeds gathered in the Sanctum under the hastily constructed banner, "No News is Good News...
Matter of Trust. When the Citizens State Bank of Alvarado collapsed in April, the F.D.I.C.'s chore was somewhat more complicated. The federal agency is suing the bank's president, Jack Park, who has been mayor of the town since 1954, for $512,000 that it says he embezzled. But the F.D.I.C. seems alone in taking offense. "I've never heard such nice things about me as people said after the trouble started," says Park. In fact, when the Pioneer and Old Settlers Association held its annual meeting last month, its members elected Park treasurer to guard...