Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DURING the somewhat heated discussions of college polities which were rife at the time of the Senior Class elections, it was frequently urged that certain measures were objectionable because they were not democratic. This appeared to be considered by many as a final argument. The moment that any plan was suspected of a character not thoroughly popular, that plan was ipso facto condemned. Good or bad, it was at once abandoned by the majority...
...Dartmouth has a very sensible editorial about the action of Yale and Harvard. It pronounces Harvard "manly" for "withdrawing at a time when she will receive countless flings on account of never having won a race." It is somewhat annoyed at Captain Cook's alleged statement that Yale has a rivalry with Harvard alone, and consoles itself with the reflection that, whatever the Captain may think, the "majority" consider Dartmouth, etc., very formidable rivals. It admits that "colleges with an abundance of men and an abundance of money must dislike having to give up cherished plans for the sake...
...items of expenditure by the base-ball club strike us (for we confess to an utter ignorance of the game) as somewhat miscellaneous and peculiar. There is 'Rope,' 'Flour,' and 'four Policemen,' who kept the ground, we may presume, on the occasion of the match on Jarvis Field. The bed-makers at Harvard appear to be called 'Goody,' as a term of general opprobrium or endearment...
...remarks, though greatly exaggerated and wrongly interpreted. There is an excess of vice in our College above the average of society at large. But if this fact be co-ordinated with other facts, thereby exhibiting a uniformity or law of nature, our author is disclosed as uttering a somewhat futile protest against some such matter as the tendency of profits to a minimum or the increase of insanity with increasing complexity of society. Of late the class of facts in question has undergone examination, resulting in the following generalization, applying to all colleges and to assemblages of both the sexes...
...gratify the managers of the recent explosion at University to learn that their action has been widely noticed by the college press, and has also figured, in a somewhat embellished from, in the columns of the New York Sun. The reputation which attaches itself to such reports is, however, anything but creditable to the College, and it is to be hoped that the thoughtless students who so disgraced the name of Harvard a few weeks ago will hereafter restrain their pranks within the bounds of common decency...