Word: though
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...practical value that we desire an elective in law, though the consideration of its theoretical value may overcome the objections of those who think that, in college, time should not be taken from studies which conduce to general culture, and devoted to professional studies. The students who intend to make the law their profession form a large portion of every class, and to these an elective in law would of course be very acceptable; while even to those who intend to follow mercantile pursuits an elementary knowledge of law would be of great, value...
...consequently enabled to profit more by his subsequent instruction. A great many men either lack the time or the energy to work up such a subject by themselves, who would eagerly embrace the opportunity of pursuing such a course were it offered to them; and it seems, though this would require the proof which experiment only can give, as if such a course would, together with the entrance examinations, raise the standard of scholarship in the Law School. Many men on graduation enter the Law School, forming a fair proportion of the class there. If this course could answer...
...Bartlett. These gentlemen sustained their position by announcing the principle, - that it is the spirit not the cause, which makes the glory of fighting; Southerners, they held, would feel no mortification from the erection of the hall, for they would appreciate that those in whose memory it was built, though they fought against the South, did so from principle; the Southerners too, being actuated by a like principle, would deserve and receive like praise; it was not principle, but the mere circumstance of living in Massachusetts or South Carolina (say), which decided whether a soldier should wear the blue...
...speeches led a Southern gentleman, a member of the class of '33, to write to the Nation, pointing out that it would be but consistent with this principle to put up tablets in Memorial Hall to Harvard graduates who had fallen on the Confederate side also. The Nation replied, though indorsing the ground taken by Judge Devens and General Bartlett, "To put up tablets .... to persons whom its builders do not reverence or love - i.e. the Southern dead - would be a kind of absurdity difficult to describe, if it were not an act of hypocrisy...
...next event was a sparring contest between Messrs. Riggs, '76, and Weld, '79. Mr. Riggs was declared the winner, after two bouts, the first lasting ten and the second three minutes. Mr. Weld, though lacking the science and quickness of his opponent, stood his ground pluckily. Another sparring-match then took place between Messrs. Mudge, '74, and Denton, L. S. S. Mr. Mudge's blows were delivered with considerable force, but the majority of them were skilfully parried by Mr. Denton, who finally succeeded in getting his opponent's head in chancery. At the end of two bouts, of five...