Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discussing the House Plan, President Lowell seems at some pains to avoid the appearance of rushing the thing by emphasizing the point that the idea has been in the minds of the Corporation for some two decades. It seems justifiable to assume that this somewhat anxious stressing of what is at best a flimsy support arises from the consciousness that the completion of the plan is being forced with extraordinary haste. Certainly the statement that all the houses will be ready for occupancy by a year from next September falls as a surprise upon the ears of those who last...
...experiment which allows of no application of its results to future events. If modifications in the physical equipment of the first two Houses are found to be desirable, there will be small advantage in the discovery if the succeeding units have already been constructed. Equally important is the somewhat delicate matter of the choice of House Masters and tutors. The relationships of these men both among themselves and with their students promises to be somewhat entirely new, and much may be learned from the way in which the present choices work out. If all the Houses are to be completed...
...making the announcement Duggan added that there are quarters in the Yard dormitories for 480 Seniors. In view of the fact that 168 members of the class of 1931 have been accepted in Lowell and Dunster Houses the rooming situation in the Yard will be somewhat relieved next year. Men may apply in groups of any number up to a maximum...
...appeal. In view of the rather disagreeable incidents that Prohibition has foisted on the attention of the American public during the last decade, there is a considerable amount of justice in the fact that the noble experiment is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a plentitude of dramatic, if somewhat disturbing pyrotechnics. The war is on in earnest...
Harvard has gone somewhat less than half-way in its present advocacy of the Classics as an essential part in the culture of an educated man. While Divisional Examinations have made obligatory for candidates in Literatures or History and Literature the study of two ancient authors, the student has been left to thumb his own way through the Biad and the Odyssey during the summer preceding his Senior year, and generally reaches the time of the examinations with inadequate preparation for them and no appreciation at all for the works he has studied. This may be argued back...