Word: though
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...curious story with an unreal situation. The mountains with their queer people and customs are faithfully and vividly painted, however, and analyses of character are masterly. One feels though that they somewhat overbalance the story...
...Appleton Chapel last evening Dean Hodges of the Episcopal Theological School, read the Bible narrative on which Racine's "Athalie" is based, and briefly told the story of the movement which led to the overthrow of the tyrannical queen of Judah. Though the tragedy of Racine had a deep religious significance there were lessons to be drawn from a study of the purely religious aspect of the story. Dean Hodges called attention to the fact that the monks of the Dark Ages were the first to produce, as a means of conveying religious truth, the sacred plays of which "Athalie...
...Harvard speakers, though they have failed to reassert superiority over Yale 's steadily increasing strength in debating, have nevertheless done all that lay in their power to prepare themselves thoroughly and the College may feel confident that their effort was in no way discreditable...
...money is needed to pay the rent and to furnish the room, and though the sum required is about one thousand dollars, it should not be difficult te raise that sum for such a purpose. If five hundred only of our students subscribe two dollars each, the difficulty will be overcome...
...figures which appear today as to registration in the University, though incomplete, offer a most gratifying bit of concrete evidence as to the consistent progress Harvard is making from year to year. Each increase in numbers has been considerable, and better than that, the increase seems to be constant, so that one is justified in regarding the growth, not as fluctuating and therefore accidental and dependent on outside influences, but as a steady expansion, caused by the constantly growing prestige of the institution...