Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Rice's condemnation of the policy of the Military Science Committee in asking Harvard to champion the cause of universal training seems somewhat unwarranted. To ask a College like this to remain silent on such an important issue is to deny it one of its chief functions. It is to the colleges above all other institutions that the country looks for opinions as to our military policy; for it is the colleges who will be called upon to share a good portion of the burden should universal training be adopted. Therefore, Mr. Rice's analogy that colleges are not heard...
...been done by the manufacturing, financial, medical, architectural, trustee and insurance groups of the campaigners. The above groups have so far obtained more than half of their allotment, as in comparison with the 40 per cent, covered by the three next highest groups. The remaining 11 groups are somewhat lower than this, while the general average for the whole city stands at 41 per cent...
...that the missionary is not a long-haired non-producer, but a person of heroic character and the moulder of people from savages into civilized beings, the "average educated man" may choose from a number of living soldiers of the Cross who are carrying on work of a character somewhat similar to that of the earlier heroes--such men as Dan Craw-ford in Africa, Sherwood Eddy in India, and John R. Mott throughout the world. I am convinced that all those whose names are here mentioned, and many others, belong in the great company of world heroes with Albert...
Indifferent cheering and poor singing marked the University's effort to support its team against Brown last Saturday. As a climax to the somewhat "gauche" and enervating exhibition, the Crimson band broke in with a song, while their opponents were still rendering their first...
...Flinn goes on to say that the writer of the CRIMSON editorial advocated our breaking faith with our fighting men. I am somewhat at a loss to know exactly what our faith was. Should we load them with gifts? Apparently not, for Mr. Flinn advocates a "normal war service gratuity", a very pretty term, indeed; but is it much different from the "common or garden variety" pension? We are not proclaiming our treatment of the Civil War and Spanish War veterans from the housetops; but they re ceived practically the same thing as a "national war service gratuity...