Word: though
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...inter-club contest of last evening the new departure in Harvard debating amply justified itself. The victors are to be most heartily congratulated. Though representative of a Freshman club and comparatively inexperienced, they have yet shown ability superior to their older rivals and illustrative of the cooperation and hearty support of their fellows...
Although defeated the Sophomores have yet the satisfaction of knowing that they and the club they represent have already been of distinct service to Harvard debating. The club is still in its infancy but has shown itself a live institution, and, though defeated by a younger organization, is under the disadvantage of being less representative of the best talent in the class...
...have been impressed by the pure life and tragic death of Marshall Newell should come here to think of him. Each year turns out from the mass of youths at this University, leaders, pure, modest and masculine characters. Marshall Newell was one of these-the true type of man. Though poor and with but few acquaintances, from the very beginning he made friends. Reserved, yet companionable-true to the type of wholesome, single-hearted men, he was one of those who leaven our life and whose memory the College rejoices to foster. His character, though outwardly controlled and reserved...
...recall them. The work of a man's life is in its depth, not in its length; in its quality not in its quantity. He might have lived to build a railroad, to be a useful citizen or to have a happy home, but one thing we know, though it had been years later, his death, could not have brought home to his friends with greater force its lesson of a modest and unassuming life. What more can a man do in leaving this world than to give the truth of life to those he loves...
...verses in this number though slight is worth while, especially the song just below the editorial and the lines on "The Great Iceland Glacier...