Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facilities. Parallel reasoning holds true with regard to using deans. With classes as large as they are at Harvard, and with deans few in comparison to the number of students, it is not expedient to send out personal invitations to each individual to drop in for a chat. Nevertheless, University officials are ready to see all who want to come, even if only for such a chat...
...locale of the tale is vividly drawn, if perhaps almost a little too modern for credulity. Possibly this is part of the charm of the book since, although we of today cannot imagine such happenings in a Twentieth Century such happenings in a Twentieth Century world, we nevertheless realize the similarity of character and emotion which has persisted through the rough and oftentimes crude period of our early history. Because these men are not historical characters and therefore were not great and unusual men, we appreciate even more that these were the men who built the west and are responsible...
Shaw boasts that he got his Star post "because I believed I could make musical criticism readable even by the deaf." As Corno di Bassetto he succeeded partly by being flip, partly by avoiding, to the scandalized amusement of his colleagues, the technical aspect of music. Nevertheless, Shaw had a sound background. With the aid of his mother and a singing teacher who had moved into their Dublin house, he had developed a skilled but "uninteresting" baritone voice, had learned the piano and mastered in great detail a tremendous lot of musical scores, mostly the operas of Meyerbeer and Verdi...
Thus the game began badly for Harvard. Nevertheless, to spectators at least two touchdowns for the Crimson seemed certain, but fumbles again and again stopped the Freshman march. In the second quarter Harvard fumbled on its second down on the Exeter three yard line after a 52-yard march of five first downs. And again, Gardella was on the six-yard line ready for a score, when he fumbled and lost the ball...
Thus, even though Dudley Hall has much hard work ahead in many ways before it can compare to the Houses as an active social unit, nevertheless great strides have been made in the last three years. It is to be hoped that the Hall continues during the coming months to fulfill the dreams of the men who were instrumental in founding...