Word: though
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...rooms at small cost, loans furniture at a yearly rental of 10 per cent. of its value. Every student leasing furniture is obliged to pay the yearly rent in advance, and must deposit a sum of money, ordinarily $2.50, as a partial guarantee of its return in good condition. Though the primary purpose of the Association is to be of use to students who find it necessary to exercise strict economy, any student in the University may apply for furniture...
...title more significant than "The Grind" would be "The Cad." It is to be hoped that students like Thurman are as remote from reality as the New England villagers he describes. "The Serious-Minded Student" takes himself so solemnly as to be fair game for his mates; but though the species is known, the sketch leaves the reader wondering whether this particular individual ever existed. Mr. Powel's "Influence of the Comic Opera" is a clever skit, the humor of which would move even the Serious-Minded Student to laughter...
...been able to lower Brown's colors, though the best college teams in the East, with the exception of Princeton, have all played the Providence nine. The first game with Yale was a tie, and was called in the thirteenth inning on account of darkness with the score 2 to 2. In the second game Brown, won out in the ninth inning by an exciting rally...
...artistic quality. The characters are on the whole so well imagined that one regrets the more keenly the lapse of imagination that compels him to conclude the story by a suicide. The same regret occurs to one in reading Mr. Carb's terrible but effective character study "Leri," though in this case the suicide is not only more clearly inevitable but better justified by the dramatic effect. Mr. F. E. Green in a "Mender of Dreams" has worked out a capital situation with good effect of suspense, and has made telling use of his setting. The buoyant and graceful "travel...
...four poems the most powerful is undoubtedly Mr. R. E. Rogers' "Tschaikowsky," which has been awarded the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize. All of the verse is distinguished by unaccustomed lucidity. Mr. J. S. Reed's "Bacchanal", which might fairly be called a fine poem, has considerable charm, though, it occasionally falls into some of the faults to which this species of writing is liable...