Word: though
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...official averages of the base ball association cannot be very pleasant reading for Harvard men; for though Harvard stands by far the leader in the batting and almost, if not quite, a leader in the fielding averages; though she possesses the best individual players in the league, she did not win the championship which ought to have been hers. We shall always maintain that Harvard had the best nine in the league of 1886, and that nothing but a series of accidents lost her the championship; in support of this view the figures now published need only be referred...
...Index" is ready at last. For some strange reason the printers have kept their last promise, and have made no more mistakes. Though there are over twenty pages of new matter in in this year's "Index" the price will be the same as that of last year...
...Though, during the lull in athletics and the more widely noticeable events at Yale, which is necessarily brought on by the season of the year and the near approach of our semi-annual examinations, the university is brought but little to the outside world, there is, in reality, a good deal of life and activity within her walls. It is an activity in the inner and social life of the university and in preparation for the work of the coming year. President and Mrs. Dwight who have already given a reception to the students of the scientific department, give another...
...Shakespeare Club was a misguided though originally sincere endeavor - to combine the work done in English II under our master of English literature, Professor Child, with a weak attempt at "acting" - not "dramatic expression" - by youths who knew nothing of the principles of the art which they thought they were studying. In other words, the work of which the Shakespeare Club made a signal failure, will continue to be done conscientiously and thoroughly in English II, and in elocution under the direction of the instructor. Any attempt to revive so useless a society - one which brought such disgrace upon...
...with sincere pleasure that we read of the intended celebration of our younger sister, Columbia; and our pleasure is the most sincere because we ourselves have just been eating the birthday cake of our own beloved alma mater. Though adversity and prosperity - and she has had a large dose of both - Columbia has always held up her head with the proudest. Contending as she has done, against the many disadvantages which are sure to attend a college situated in the heart of a great city, she has honorably proved her right to existence; she has gradually been shaking...