Word: though
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...University gymnastic team gave a successful joint exhibition with the Yale team in the Hemenway Gymnasium on Saturday evening. The features of the meet were the University team's pyramid work and Yale's clever exhibition of tumbling. Both teams showed good form on the horizontal bar. Though Harvard had the better of the side-horse and club swinging events, Yale gave a better performance on the flying rings. The University team, starting with only two men from last year's team as a nucleus, has developed slowly but consistently and is in good condition for the subsequent competitive meets...
...aims of the Speakers' Club, but we do not think that it gives any conclusive reason for presenting a play. While the philanthropic purpose is distinctly commendable, we believe, perhaps rather selfishly, that the undergraduates should support their own institutions before coming to the aid of outside charities. Even though the members of the cast would not have tried for Dramatic Club parts, the fact remains that they are given an opportunity to do so, and that this club deserves the support of all men interested in acting. As was shown by the success of the play last fall...
...most important factor in the management of the department store is the personal element, which is essential to success. Care, good breeding, intelligence, and fidelity are indispensable, and there is a field for originality and intellectual growth. Though the retail business has reached a high level, there will always be a vast opportunity for men with first-class executive and financial ability to broaden and improve the business profession...
...only within the last 25 years that college men have turned in large numbers to business life on graduation, and even at the present time few of them engage in retail trade. Though in recent graduating classes at Harvard more than one-half of the members have announced their intention of going into "business," they usually enter manufacturing, wholesale trading, or some form of banking. The evolution of the department store, involving the centralization under a single management of many operations of trade and manufacturing, is a development of the present which has raised the retail business to the dignity...
From start to finish the positions on the CRIMSON are open to competition. The average board is composed of ten editors, who are chosen from a large number of candidates, usually during four competitions, two Freshman year, and two Sophomore year, though the competition for Freshmen during the first half was omitted this year. One, two, three, or even four editors may be taken from each competition, according as they have proved their worth to the satisfaction of the managing editor. For the first few days the work is very general and consists of picking up about the College...