Word: though
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University eleven will face Penn. State, in the final try-out before the Princeton game, in the Stadium this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The visitors are bringing to Cambridge a strong aggregation of players, with a record of five straight victories behind them. Though outweighed by the University, the team is in excellent condition and will enter today's contest, set on eclipsing last year...
...Though the rules of Yale, Princeton and Harvard are fundamentally alike their likeness is based on a mutual understanding and on no intercollegiate agreement now in force. Examination reveals in the three sets of rules considerable differences...
...Gore rowed side by side during most of the race, but a hundred yards from the finish Smith spurted and managed to shoot over the line a bare quarter-length ahead. Standish finished far in the rear. Smith's time was 5.36 which is very good for the course, though a slight following wind aided the oarsmen...
...Such writing lingers in the memory, though it be only the memory of a few. But for one American who has read Dana's 'Speeches in Stirring Times' there are thousands throughout the English-speaking world who have shared with the boyish Dana his pleasure in the 'perfect silence of the sea' and 'the early breaking of day on the wide ocean,' his awe at 'the cold and angry skies' and 'long heavy ugly seas' off the Cape, who have seen with him the 'malignant' brightness of the lightning in the tropical storm, the yellow California sunshine and the gray...
...square, are now structurally complete, except for the great central dome, and the front of the Library. The work has been in progress for two years and there remains now to be done only some interior work on the main buildings, and the erection of the Mining Building. This though now just started, will be finished with the rest, and be ready for occupancy next September. The Pratt School of Naval Architecture alone will not be complete at that time, as the terms of the legacy do not permit its being started for several months...