Word: though
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following account of a German students' duel, a thing which is of frequent occurrence on the other side may interest those of our readers who are taking fencing lessons, though we trust it will not stir up any blood-thirsty desires in their American breasts...
...yard dash appears to lie between the same men, though S. G. Wells, L. S., Harvard, is also a fast man at this distance. He is expected to take the quarter-mile with A. Coit, '87, of Yale, or J. F. McGuire, '90, second...
...mature and careful criticism of the works of that gifted writer. The style, a little involved at first, becomes clearer and more forcible as the essay progresses, and is marred by but a very few inelegancies. The light in which Stevenson's works are regarded is eminently just; and though the admiration bestowed on them admits of many qualifications, their inspiring cheerfulness and whole someness cannot be denied...
...subject which, if old, is not yet exhausted; indeed the carelessness with which the question of the possibility of establishing the said club has been allowed to drop, and the rapidity with which curiosity as regards it has evaporated would seem to prove the little interest in it, though there is, I think, deep interest below the surface of all the stumbling-blocks that impede its supporters. The most serious is, as I pointed out in a previous letter, the absence of any special reason strong enough to supply motive power to keep the club going. Though there are half...
...committee have full power and they have decided to enter the new league in spite of violent opposition from a number of men in college. For Yale has been placed in an extremely unfortunate position by the action of Princeton and Harvard, and now it looks as though she was being forced into the new league. It is for this reason that many Yale men desire to have their nine remain in the old association for this year at least. But the delegates have decided to follow out what have been their convictions from the first, though it will leave...