Word: rather
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...forthcoming number of the Advocate contains three stories, two of them no better than many other college stories, the third quite agreeably surprising in its conclusion. It is a rather fantastic colonial sketch by F. W. C. Hersey '99, beginning in a manner that comes near to being forced and affected, and apparently over-obvious in plot. But the last sentence shows the story in a new light, that is much more human and natural...
...amusing apology for a parody on a well known "Journal of Society"; the second, a sarcastic reference to Life's somewhat illogical war attitude. As a whole, however, the issue is but mediocre. A take-off on "Rupert of Hentzau" in its title promises well, but is overdone and rather hard to wade through. The usual "Lispings of Little Lew" also do not come up to expectations...
...tendency both in school and college is to narrow the number of those who take regular athletic training to those who find some hope of "getting on the team." In England there are dozens of "teams" in each school and the goal is good health and honest sport rather than winning a game. It is this spirit that progressive universities such as Harvard and Yale should foster in the preparatory schools, if necessary, by arbitrarily requiring a certain amount of physical development...
...individual editor to whose hands the publication was entrusted, and he has succeeded admirably. The athletic and social records are entirely free from those aggravating mistakes which are of such frequent occurence in irresponsible publications, and in every way the Album is distinctly creditable and rather more than well worth owing...
...different ways in which the outbreak of the war has affected the University, and makes a request that everyone possessing information as to the enlistment of graduates or undergraduates, send it to swell the list that is to be printed. The choice of the Brooks House site is supported rather doubtfully, and the new building is pictured in the frontispiece. Among other things, the uniquely interesting talk "From a Graduate's Window," the tale of the institution of the Harvard Alumni Association in the West, and the appreciative review of President Eliot's essays help to make up a very...