Word: though
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...about 3 per cent. smaller and it was entirely spoiled in the elections this fall when only 232 men voted. A similar dropping off each year with a large decrease in Junior year is noticeable in most classes. No wonder some people call us indifferent, and it seems as though they are not far wrong in the matter of class elections at any rate...
...recent number of the University Gazette contained an announcement of a change in the requirements for admission to the Freshman class. An attempt seems to have been made to simplify these requirements, though without changing the amount or quality of work necessary by reducing the number of specific requirements. Candidates for the degree of A.B. are no longer required to take a certain number of advanced studies, though they are advised to do so, and the list of studies available has been increased by the addition of Botany, Drawing and Civil Government, all of which are now commonly taught...
...Promised Land," the first production of the recently founded Dramatic Club, impressed its audience at Brattle Hall last evening as an important and vigorous, though sombre, play, performed with almost professional ease and distinction; it presented a serious and worthy appeal...
...speaks of war as a science of attacking a weaker opponent and getting out of the way of a stronger. In "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" he shows that an apparently helpless and unskilled woman is stronger in an emergency than the power of the sword. "Mrs. Warren's Profession," though known as "immorality dramatized," is really an enquiry into the self-complacency of modern society. "Candida" is a criticism of a modern socialist clergyman who is a good preacher, a good man, and surrounded by goodness, but lacks reality, and the power of accomplishing good...
...well to hear of them at first hand. In spite of the articles which appear in the magazines from time to time on the condition of affairs in these new dependencies they are probably little understood and appreciated by the average citizen. A long, carefully prepared magazine article though well supplied with pictures will not generally succeed in giving as correct an idea of the situation and at the same time be as interesting as a lecture delivered by a man who knows of what he speaks and is assisted in his explanations by stereopticon views...