Word: though
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...love and adventure--or rather, a lapse of love and misadventure--absorbing all but three pages of the number. The plot is good and moves along well, but the style is not workmanlike. The piece is too long for its substance; it impresses one as being "padded," as though the writer had incorporated unimportant incidents merely to please his fancy or give his descriptive powers a fling. The ending is a trifle unintelligible, being either so obvious as to utterly shake the foundation of the plot and the action, or so enigmatical as to totally mystify. However, to the question...
...channels of wisdom, can reveal to the Born Criminal that he was made for better things--is well written and well worked out, but perhaps a trifle inconsistently. "New Opportunity in Old Lands," urging Harvard men to reap the harvests in Europe after the war, is deserving of praise, though the matter is bromidic. Mr. Cowley's comments on McFee's "Casuals of the Sea" are keen and to the point; he seems to have a grasp of the essentials of a good review...
...pretty good quarter-miler. He is a big, rangy fellow and has rigged physique. W. D. Crim, the best quarter-miler of the outfit, is being hard pressed by Acheson in the two and one-half lap races on the board track. Crim is showing up well this winter, though he is not as good on the boards as on the cinders. Another likely candidate for this team is Bartsch, a 220 man who has shown promise for the last two years, while Fritz Shiverick, the football captain, may also win a place. Shiverick has only been...
Cornell's representative on the board of stewards, Charles E. Treman, is expected to give approval of a plan to reduce the course at Poughkeepsie from four to three miles, if such a plan comes before the stewards at the meeting next week. Though Coach Courtney and Cornell rowing men generally favor reducing the length of the race--some of them to two miles--Cornell is not likely to initiate a movement to bring it about, but will support the plan if it is put forward by some other steward...
...addition, the Yale News and the Student Council have announced themselves officially as being in favor of it, which clearly shows Yale's attitude in regard to the general idea of universal service, though not to any particular form of it or any particular bill being discussed at present...