Word: rather
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...crew paddled down the river easily to the half mile mark and from there rowed to the start on time, covering the distance in 2m. 50s. The blade work of the starboard side was rather ragged and the boat very unsteady. The eight was sent back to the half mile flag a second time, and again rowed the distance on time. The work was vastly improved, as was shown by the new time...
...that the baseball season here is approaching the climax of the Yale game, we should like to enquire with what aim the undergraduates have attended the contests of the past few weeks. If it has been merely to see two nines play ball, well and good, or rather well and bad, they might have satisfied their desire just as completely on the South End Grounds. If with any intention of rendering their team encouragement and support, their failure has been little less than ludicrous. A stranger in Cambridge attending one of the minor games, would have received the impression that...
PACH BROS. have a few cameras that they will sell at cost rather than carry them over until another season. Call and see them...
...first four rounds of the Longwood Tennis Tournament were played yesterday morning and afternoon at the Cricket Club grounds. In the last round L. E. Ware '99 defeated M. D. Whitman '99 rather easily by the score of 6-4, 6-2. In the other matches McKittrick defeated Warland 4-6, 6-5, 6-2; Read defeated Bradley 6-2, 6-5; Pier '95 defeated Wright 6-2, 6-3. The other Harvard entries were defeated in the earlier rounds...
...discussed the applicability of the Yale "Wigwam" debating system to the Junior and Senior classes at Harvard, and came to the conclusion that, in spite of the ground covered by courses of instruction and the University Debating Club, there was yet room for informal organizations of a character intended rather to popularize than to give training in, debate...