Word: though
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been insulted. This act was startling and spectacular in the extreme; for its immediate cause was insignificant. It revealed the presence of strong feeling and overwrought nerves--a sort of bursting charge that needed only a slight detonation to set it off. The situation is very much as though two men should come to harsh blows because one had accidentally broken the point of the other's pencil. In both cases a mere trifle would have resulted in important developments; the immediate cause could not possibly justify or explain the resultant action...
...more conventional plea, "In Defence of Verse Form," though less bizarre, shows in its frequent graceful lines more promise of actual power. Timotheus' lyre and Pope's lines on Atticus do consort incongruously enough with Hudibras and Keat's urn and the other members of this cento; yet, though the poet's head as well as heart be "poor-rhyming," he vallantly says what he thinks. New wine, if strong, should not be put in old bottles, but when weak, it may gain flavor from the less...
According to figures just given out by the Associated Press, 15 fatalities occurred during the 1916 football season, which closed with the Thanksgiving Day games. There were 15 deaths last year, 13 in 1914; 14 in 1913, and 13 in 1912. The number of fatalities this season, though higher than the average of the past few years, in no way reflects against intercollegiate football, since only one of the victims was a college player. In almost every case death resulted because of physical unfitness and not a single life was lost where a physician's examination was demanded before...
...honor of the championship of the Eastern elevens is awarded to Pittsburg because that team has gone though the season undefeated, winning all its games but one by overwhelming scores. Colgate's defeat of brown places it second and the providence eleven, with victories over both Yale and the University comes next...
...histories. At the Yale Pageant I go very clear conception of the past history of the New Haven institution and here at Harvard I have had the good forth to attend the John Harvard birthday service in the Chapel. We have some pretty fine institutions in the South even though Harvard does beat some of the in football...