Word: though
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Though the summer boats now glide...
...such writers would confine themselves to prose, the result would generally be an excellent and harmonious style, which would charm by its melody, and surprise by the introduction of poetic thoughts, which, though not in themselves sufficient to constitute a poem, would still greatly enhance the beauty of prose composition. Of course we do not advise those who feel that they are best fitted for poetry to change their manner of writing. This only applies to those beginning their literary career, who as yet are not confirmed in any style. If the writer is really a poet, his talent will...
...order that our demands for the supply of a much-needed want may be shown to be reasonable, we venture, though fearfully, to write "Plank-walks" again. Hoping to touch the heart of at least one member of the Corporation, we have procured a rough estimate of the cost of a plank-walk, to be laid around the Yard, and on the principal cross-walks and entrances; such a walk, made three feet wide, of strong planks, and so constructed that it could be taken up and put down again with little labor, would cost only about...
...feature of a Regatta at Saratoga. It loses its temper in an attempt to "rough" the Magenta for venturing to say that in its last number it indulged "a wee bit in braggadocio," and makes one remark which may have been funny when it first appeared in Yale papers, though we have forgotten, and another which we do not repeat, because we are unwilling to believe that more than one man at Yale could make...
...Though crownless Greece has laid her dead away...