Word: though
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...track athletics, the team lost the dual games with Yale, but came out first at the intercollegiate track meet with the largest score on record. In rowing, the University won its race with Yale handsomely. In baseball, the team was brought into its best form too early, and though it had almost unexampled success with Princeton, lost to Yale. Thus, though the baseball season was in several ways disappointing, the most ill-natured critic of Harvard athletics could no longer find a pretext for the old accusation of favoritism and incompetence...
...that has charge of those contests, much of the talk against athletics would die a natural death. For the real danger in athletics is not physical, but moral. If a case against them is ever made out, it will not be because they kill a man now and then (though the risk of physical injury should be studiously reduced); it will be because they appear at times to paralyze the honor of contestants and spectators. I write as an enthusiastic believer in intercollegiate sports, who would see them not merely maintained, but maintained at such a level as shall keep...
Adolf Augustus Berle, Jr., of Cambridge, the second speaker for the Freshmen, prepared for College chiefly at home, though he graduated from the Salem High School. He has never done any debating before, but was in the finals of the Pasteur Medal contest...
Although the water in the Basin was very rough, the crew rowed down to the Union Boat Club in long stretches. Considering the fact that the crew has not been on the water for a week, the practice was satisfactory, though the blade work was hardly up to standard on account of the rough water. Above Longwood Bridge the boat went fairly well...
...even with the second University boat, bow on the Freshman caught a crab and the rest of the men stopped until he got his oar again. The University eight finished first, while the second Freshman just managed to pass the first Freshman crew. All three eights rowed very well, though two of the second University crew's regular men, Strong and Metcalf, were at Annapolis as substitutes for the University crew...