Word: although
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Although an innumerable number of courses have been added to the college curriculum since the introduction of the elective system, one branch of professional study, in which a great many men now in college expect to engage after graduation, has been entirely overlooked. I refer to the establishment of a chair of journalism, to be classed under the same head as are all the English courses. There is no better way to test the popularity of an experimental course than making it in the first place voluntary, and then if the attendance warrants, changing it to a half or full...
...communication addressed him by Captain Willard, says that, as the students of Columbia College have never desired the liberty of playing with professionals, he is in doubt as to what would be his course in case of the rise of such a question. He further says that, although he personally regards unfavorably any proposition which would encourage students to engage with professional players, nevertheless there is something to be said on both sides...
President Smith of Trinity College, newly elected bishop of Ohio, has not yet decided to accept this dignity, although it is expected that he will do so. The faculty and students of Trinity have submitted petitions asking him to remain at the head of the college...
...years later, in February, 1830, appeared the first copy of The Collegian. The staff of editors consisted of John O. Sargent, '30; Theodore W. Snow, '30; William H. Simmons, '31; R. Habersham, '31, and Frederic William Brune, '31. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who had graduated the year before, although not an editor, contributed the best articles in The Collegian. Numerous poems of his appeared first in this paper. The Collegian was published monthly for six months, ending with the class...
...University of Virginia has no chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, although Thomas Jefferson is said to have been the founder of both. A movement is now on foot at the University to secure a charter...