Word: whilst
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...required to attend in the "Hall," from nine to eleven and from one to three on Mondays and Tuesdays for their annual examinations. Visitors might at this time test their proficiency in the various studies, and as it was customary for some of the overseers to visit the school whilst the students were thus doing "what were called sitting of solstices," these weeks were called the "weeks of visitation." Those who failed to pass the examinations were "deferred to the following year." The degree of bachelor of arts was conferred upon all who had successfully completed the four years course...
Much of American advance is due to improved methods, largely accomplished by steel rails and improved heavy rolling stock. This has increased traffic, German roads have laid steel rails, but have not increased size of cars. Also have empty cars waiting for loads, whilst in other places people may perhaps be clamoring for cars. State railroads are wrecked on this rock...
...pretend to be careful in their speech, it may be claimed that they offend no oftener than do their English cousins. Good, or what are called good, English writers say "different than," for which there appears no authority in either etymology or syntax. They persist in the use of "whilst" as firmly as they do in their spelling of "favour," labour," "honour" and "cheque." Whatever modifications in English orthography have been the result of a desire to expunge useless letters. The Englishman replies that in these cases we destroy all trace of the origin of the word. But "favor," "labor...
...spirit of manliness and of self-reliance. He was glad to be able to state that at present the relations between the faculty and the students were more cordial than formerly, and that the university was becoming every day more national; the number of New England students was decreasing, whilst the number of those from the south and west was increasing. In conclusion, he felt confident that their ambition that Harvard should become a national university, and not a New England one merely, would be fulfilled in the lifetime of those present. "Fair Harvard" was then sung by those assembled...
...Oxford Association for the Education of Women, and the name of Mrs. Marshall appears in the notice of lecturers issued for the next term. Her subject is Political Economy, under the sub-title of 'Labor, the Economic Conditions of its Well-being,' and the course commenced on 21st. inst." Whilst American colleges for the education of women, such as Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley, have honored many women with appointments as professors and instructors, and Wellesley has a woman at its head, English female colleges have hitherto been contented with gentlemen. This is only another example to show how much farther...