Word: although
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attendance of over 450 persons packed the Hasty Pudding Club Theatre in the first public performance of "Crowns and Clowns" last night. Never before in the history of Pudding plays has a Cambridge audience been so large. Although the sign "Standing Room Only" was put up at 7.45 it had to be taken down fifteen minutes later...
...announcement that Yale College, although not Sheffield, has ratified a proposal of the Student Council to limit the number of offices which an individual may hold will arouse wide-spread interest. Such a policy has long been in vogue in some preparatory schools and western universities. The exponents of the system defend it on the ground that it tends to efficiency in the administration of undergraduate activities in that it restrains a man from undertaking more than he can successfully accomplish. The benefits of experience in management are more equally distributed, and studies are said to receive more attention...
This will be the last Liberty Loan, although there will be other issues of government securities to finance belated war expenses. These, however, will not be floated by popular campaign. None of the past issues of Liberty Bonds are convertible into Victory Loan notes, and there are no specific provisions in the terms of the Victory issue serving directly to maintain market prices of past issues...
...Although cuts have been made in both the University and Freshman squads, nevertheless the men who will represent the University are still unchosen. The most promising men among the University candidates are: Hatch, Hyams, Helm, De Turrenne, Hanighen, Robinson and Fenno...
...must be closer co-operation between capital and labor. And at the root of most of our social problems lies that of education. It has been customary -- too customary -- to dismiss any difficult problem with the statement: "If we had better education this would take care of itself." But, although these words have become very trite, it is none the less true that reforms in our colleges, secondary, and elementary schools are very necessary if we are to be able to face the new problems which confront the world...