Word: though
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Crimson, as every one knows, besides giving the College news of the week, is intended to reflect undergraduate opinion on events which directly concern the students in general. We are perfectly well aware that, though they often make unpleasantly searching scrutiny into our conduct, the "powers that be" care little or nothing for our views in regard to any of their actions. Howbeit, the decision made by the Committee on Proctorships has not given unalloyed satisfaction to the undergraduate world. This committee has appointed two fresh Seniors (from another college) to the important, passably lucrative, and quite honorable position...
...press who sits high aloft beyond the pale of criticism, and casts his blunt weapons down at us. We are too greatly prostrated to attempt any palliation, and if we hazard facing him again, it is only to insinuate that in a future case even he, powerful conjurer though he be, must needs exert himself to introduce more blue and less crimson into his already falsely drawn picture. It does seem a little odd, now that we think of it, that "the eleven-men game was a concession originally to Harvard, made two years ago," when we recollect that...
...Yale Courant contains an excellent article on "The Sphere of Criticism." Another, entitled "As Regards Eating," is tolerably amusing, though it gives us rather a startling idea of the company Yale men expect to meet at dinner-parties. The Editors of the Courant are disturbed in their minds because what they "considered a harmless joke - to the effect that there were twenty insane persons in the Senior Class - has been copied, in sober earnest, into nearly every college paper, large or small, in the country." The characteristic American amusement of telling untruths which are not meant to be believed...
This, then, must be the "Harvard indifference" about which I have heard so much. I am trying for it now, and I hope to be expert when I go home at Christmas. What though my father will murmur "Snobling"! I respect him because he is a relative of mine; but he is too much of a fogy to appreciate the finesse in being Harvardly indifferent...
...Though rapid, gentle, as in a dream...