Word: although
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...special assignment of rooms to Juniors in Hollis, Holworthy and Stoughton Halls was announced by the Bursar last evening. As in former years the Holworthy rooms received by far the greatest number of applications, and on many blanks no choices were registered save in this one building. Although the applicants far outnumbered the available rooms, several rooms could not be assigned as the applications which were entitled by the drawing to a chance for these rooms did not contain these particular rooms in the list of choices. These rooms are numbers 10, 29, and 30 in Hollis...
...Although municipal government in America has not been so drastic a failure as some would have us believe, our cities have been badly managed, and the out grafter has held the ascendency with ineffectual reformers combating against him. In politics there has been an element of respectable men, who have been but machine tools. Reformers have failed principally because they have held the power without knowing how to give the community what it needed...
...conclusion, Dr. Allen said that although under the present system few but the dishonest have a chance, there is a wide field of work for the honest man, who will eliminate the consideration of personalities, and will be interested in governmental facts...
...first of these was necessary to the maintenance of the status quo in the countries of the western Mediterranean and the eastern Atlantic. The Algeciras conference, although it has by no means yet solved the Moroccan question, has put Spain in a better position than any it has occupied since the war with the United States...
...French translation of its original form, it may one day give China a pretext for complaint of unjustifiable foreign interference in her affairs. The treaty between Russia and Japan, though drawn up at Portsmouth when the war ended, was not reduced to satisfactory form till the autumn of 1907. Although bearing hardly on Russia, in some respects it ensures peaceful conditions for Russian activities in the Far East...