Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there are requisites of success other than the conscientious work of captains and managers, necessary as these are. Men must be found who are willing to train earnestly and long, else we cannot even hope for victory. All this is of course very trite and uninteresting, but it is nevertheless the foundation truth of athletic success, and needs to be practiced as well as understood. We do not propose to launch forth into extended exhortations-a style too common in college and school publications-but merely to call to mind the facts. Harvard tried her very best in football this...
...monuments are not to be judged by the same standard as for instance, the Parthenon frieze. They are probably the work of mere craftsmen. Many, nevertheless, possess great beauty, though they vary much among themselves. It has been suggested that they were kept in stock, but there is no proof of this theory, and the fact that the figures are evidently intended to represent particular persons militates strongly against...
...attention. We are informed that it is intended to tear down and rebuild the entire interior of Gore Hall some time in the near future; when this is done provision will be made for lighting the hall. This announcement is extremely indefinite and hardly affords occasion for congratulation; but, nevertheless, it shows that those in authority have begun to feel the inconvenience to which the whole body of students is daily put and that hereafter they will make every effort to give us this, which we not only should like, but which we absolutely require...
...been any humor in the prank it might be pardoned; unfortunately, however, there was not a single element of wit displayed, and meanwhile strangers crossing the yard were simply disgusted at the vulgarity. Who the offender was will in all probability remain a secret. We take this opportunity, nevertheless, to assure him that his ungentlemanly conduct meets the hearty disapproval of the better sentiment of the college...
...perhaps the best one in this number. Its author, Mr. Woodrow Wilson, brings out the four following points, viz: that the general forces of democracy have been undermining all old forms of government; that these forces had nothing to do with the creation of our government; that they nevertheless had some effect upon us as part of the general influences of the age; and that the problems of organization and leadership are the most important questions...