Word: although
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gymnasium, which the rowing authorities have been so long working for. has at last been granted. The executive committee is pushing the work as fast as it is possible. Building plans are being prepared and masons have already given estimates of the cost of the stone-work. Although everything will be done to hasten the completion of the tank, on account of the great changes which the old gymnasium will have to undergo, it will necessarily be some time before the crew can commence working regularly in it. It is hoped, however, that everything will be in readiness...
...Although Prof. Cohn is not wholly successful as an interpreter of woman's character, his intellectual grasp of character and dialogue, and his keen and discriminating sense of humor are surpassed...
...Koran, nevertheless, has a firm hold on millions of souls. Islam. although politically dead, is religiously alive. From Gibraltar to China, the religion of Mohammed is that of the masses. It spreads rapidly in Africa, not through the preaching of isolated missionaries, but by the influence of the Arab colonies scattered throughout the continent...
...pass Thanksgiving day in some spot more congenial than the precincts of the University. We wish to repeat to all who leave Cambridge, whether they go to feast with their families or to search for a foot-ball game, the warning that has come from official sources; namely, that although the students have never been strictly limited to a holiday of twenty-four hours only at this season of the year, the practice of extending the vacation to several days must not be carried too far. The faculty has intimated this fall that those who remain away from Cambridge...
...with great applause and in his address praised the work of the university in the past and spoke of the future prospects and plans. After the conclusion of Pres. Dwight's address, Senator Davis arose and said: "Our alma mater was never so strong, never so full of vigor, although in her two hundredth year, as she is today. The older she grows the younger she is. She has come to what she is, because she is a growth and not a creation. She has grown to it. She is like a tree that spreads out its branches and extends...