Word: rather
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college; the other is the notion of a Harvard Freshman or Sophomore as the wielder of an "austere academical influence." There was no course in austere influences in my day; and we were never advised to use any particular brand of patriotism. In fact, we were rather led to believe that those who occupy the choicest places in the Republic should be the quickest to respond to its call for service. Perhaps we were misled by General Charles Lowell's reply to the man who proposed a regiment of gentlemen in the army: "What do you mean by 'gentlemen,' Drivers...
...anonymous author has started out in a style of story not often found in a college paper, and worthy of more cultivation. "Dexter's Discovery" is a new version of a story we have all read before either in the Advocate or in some other college magazine. It seems rather a waste of good material that so many men should try their hands at this same old theme. The same criticism may be applied to "The Way of the World," which moreover, savors a good deal of "Harvard Episodes." For the rest of the fiction the "Reminiscences...
...annual spring concert of the Pierian, announced for this evening, promises rather better than those of previous years. Not only has there been a great deal of conscious effort of late by the members as individuals, but the acquisition of Mr. Loeffler of the Boston Symphony Orchestra as a permanent coach, has done much to raise both individual and orchestral standards. Accordingly a creditable performance is expected...
Last Saturday Pennsylvania defeated Harvard at Philadelphia by the score of three to two. The game was very close, lasting ten innings, and with the exception of the fifty inning, when U. of P. scored two runs on Haughton's unlucky throw, Harvard had rather the best of it. After the fifth neither team could score until the tenth, when Wilhelm took first on balls, stole second, and came in on Jackson's single...
...treatment. They read as if they had been turned out for the English department to begin with, and afterwards much revised with a view to publication. One is inclined to wonder why they were published, unless as models of painstaking composition. If this is the case three are rather many for one number...