Word: though
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...love, though you are very fair...
...though you have a world...
...inclinations in the matter. On Commencement Day, however, the wearing of gowns is obligatory. By no means do all the students own gowns, but the majority, when occasion demands, hire them from the janitor, who always keeps them on hand, the charge therefor being $1.50 apiece. It seems as though a plan like this might be successfully introduced here in Cambridge, and be a source of advantage to both owner and student, for the former would gain a large percentage on his outlay, and the latter would obtain the necessary garments at a trifling expense. The cost...
...take it upon yourself, though, to ask questions or offer observations in recitations. Your questions would bore the students, and your observations would bore the tutors. And don't talk to the tutors out of hours. A Freshman who is intimate with the powers that be is looked upon by his classmates of to-day pretty much as a man who was in league with the powers of darkness used to be regarded by their Puritan ancestors. They are naturally rather afraid to maltreat him openly; but he is sure to be excluded from decent society. And before you have...
...What though around thy walls no ivy's growth...