Word: although
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard players who left for New Haven yesterday are W. T. Denison '96 and C. D. Booth 1 L., F. C. Thwaits 3 L. and C. E. Whitmore 2 L., and F. N. Morrill '96 and J. W. Peck '96. Although the team does not play as steady a game as last year, the men have all been working hard for some time and have a good chance to win. The matches which have been played with the strong teams of this vicinity have given the team excellent practice, which the Yale men have not been able to obtain...
...Although Socrates was the father of many philosophies he had no system of his own. He taught the philosophy of philosophy. Taking for his motto the words "Know Thyself," he relentlessly showed up the ignorance of man, believing that it was the greatest obstacle to human knowledge. He said that the only real good was knowledge; the only real evil, ignorance. He taught the foundations of the modern system of reasoning by induction and deduction...
...winter in Edinburgh but found the proceeds of his work amply enough to buy a farm at Ellisland near Dumfries. The farm, however, did not pay and, taking a place in the excise, he removed his family to Dumfries, and there spent the shadowed years that remained to him. Although his relations with women were many and complicated, he had in the main a high and noble character. So far from doing wrong to Jean Armour and her family, he did them generous justice, and although he was in a sense disloyal to Mrs. Macklehose-the "Clarinda" of the letters...
Captain Bremer of the Mott Haven team has received a telegram from the University of California, asking if the Harvard team can meet their term on either May 9 or 23. If the arrangements can be made, the meeting will probably take place on May 23, although nothing definite has as yet been decided...
During the past week the increased interest in debating lately manifested by members of the Sheffield Scientific School has culminated in the formation of a new society-The Sheffield Debating Club. This organization is the first of its kind in this department of the University, although the advisability of its formation has been under discussion for some time. The movement not only means the broadening and advancement of that department, but will contribute largely toward strengthening and maintaining interest in debating throughout the entire University...