Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...football seems to have aroused an unusually small amount of interest in all of the three upper classes this fall. The best men have not answered the call for candidates, and the men who have come out have been dilatory in doing so. Consequently the elevens are in a somewhat confused condition. When the class football season opened a week ago today, seventeen candidates for the Junior team began practice on Soldiers Field. On the day after, twelve candidates came out for the Senior team. The Sophomores showed still greater indifference, only eight men responding to Captain Wendell's call...
Speaking of the religious life, Dr. Peabody said that the young man, on coming here, is apt to be somewhat puzzled by the ways that are used to promote Christian work. Here, where all beliefs are represented, where religious expression is reserved, reticent and unemotional, he may not discover until later the strong under-current working for good. Religion indeed, is neither an obligation nor a duty, but the most solemn privilege of a mature man's life. This year, the new comer, if he accepts the privilege, may hear five distinguished men of five different denominations. They come...
...meeting of welcome to all students entering the University this autumn will be held in Sanders Theatre next Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. In departing somewhat from the usual form of exercises, the Committee on the Reception to New Students proposes to try to meet more adequately the existing needs of the newcomer. The purpose of the Committee is to advise students who are strangers at Harvard as to how they may establish personal relations with congenial men already at College. In three ways, the Committee believes, the personal life of the College has pleasantly organized itself,--in religious...
...ball back, he was erratic in his passing. In the punting practice before the line up, however, his back field work with Parker was of a high order. Kendall played better at right half, and made some good gains through the line. The backs fumbled too much, but somewhat less than yesterday...
Owing to the great public excitement of the last two months the attention of Harvard men, both graduates and undergraduates, has been somewhat distracted from University athletics, with the possible result that baseball and rowing men feel that they are not receiving the support of former years. If such be the case these athletes must remember that a year ago there was nothing to prevent the Yale game and the race from being the prevailing topics of the hour. Harvard men have the interests of their crew just as much at heart as a year ago, and the rowing season...