Word: though
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nothing distinctive about him, excepting an odor like a New England barnyard after an April shower." This sentence is more suited to a report of the Sewer Commission than to a work of literary art. Even Mr. Calvert Smith's "Nueva Andalucia," a gracefully written and brilliantly colored--though uneven--story of South America, shows a similar tendency toward the odoriferous. and in "Nueva Andalucia" the good red blood is not content with remaining red; it blackens before our eyes, while the banana skins rot in the middle distance, and an "unclean native smell" fills...
...third place, though the Sophomore Class deserves credit for its intention in authorizing class buttons, it should not deceive itself into thinking that they will effectually democratize it. There is a saying that nothing is democratic unless it democs, and experience has shown that class buttons among Seniors seldom democ. That is, Seniors as a rule do not make acquaintances on the strength of their buttons alone. The buttons serve only one purpose well, and that is of uniting the class by the sort of vague ties of tradition. And just as it is too late for Seniors...
...first editorial article in the Advocate of October 24 pleads for two weeks recess at Christmas; the second expounds the value of keeping certain hours sacred to study. Both are good-humored. Both are persuasive also; though the first suggests belief in the vulgar error that work is evil, and the second treats as a discovery what every sensible schoolboy knows. "The better plan is to have times appointed for study as for other pursuits," is more nearly worth saying in Harvard College than it ought to be. "Time passed with a book is not always passed in grasping ideas...
...system of club rowing at the Weld boathouse is working excellently. The first Eliot and Thayer crews have been determined upon and are steadily improving while the lower crews, though for the most part made up of inexperienced material, are being drilled in the first essentials. The two first crews are now rowing as follows...
...could be sure the evidence were complete. The one loop-hole is the very probable chance that it is carelessness on the part of those really intending to go to the game that accounts for the facts cited elsewhere. In order that the truth may be known--even though it may be unpleasant--at all events let us know how many loyal supporters the team has; let all who really are going sign up and we shall know whether there is such culpable indifference existing in our midst...