Word: though
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...number and belongs to a generation that prefers colored supplements to Du Maurier and George Ade to Thackeray. To Write or Not to Write is a commendably serious and poorly written essay. The Effect of Plattsburgh is clear and helpful without distinction. The City of Dreadful Life, though marred by more adjectives than are commonly approved and by mismated tenses, shows a talent for writing and a power of expressing colors and smells. In this number of the Advocate it is the one contribution that a reader would think of twice...
Ballet Russe in place of the Spanish ballet was a fortunate exchange for those who were anxious to see Pavlowa, though it was a peculiar anachronism nevertheless. The spirit of Russia which Pavlowa seems to embody so wonderfully was a little out of season, but her performance was of such perfection that it was complete in itself. With what subtlety and marvelous grace she expresses that terrible Russian contrast a wild, rhapsodical indulgence, and an all-impregnating, heart-rending despair...
...School, will arrive at Falmouth, England, within a week, and before being assigned to work by the British War Office will travel through Scotland and England. This unit is expected to resume the work of the first unit in a British base hospital on the French coast near Boulogne, though it will go wherever the need is most urgent, provided it is not divided...
...Nearing's lecture last Friday, women, even though they were escorted by members of the University, were refused admission; and, in spite of the fact that there were unoccupied seats within, were obliged to listen to the lecture from the adjoining hallway...
...exists in football today a situation which if left unchecked by our leading universities is going to endanger sooner or later the very existence of the game. It is quite calmly accepted as a fact among college players that preparatory school stars have their price, and they discuss, as though it were a most ordinary state of affairs, a condition in which preparatory school players have come to view the game as an opportunity of some sort. The impression formulates itself clearly that many preparatory school players have come to believe they have a price and are concerned only...