Word: albeit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crew leave for New London under the most favorable auspices. Three championships have already come to Harvard, and the college looks forward to the fourth. We consider our chances on the water about even, albeit Yale has her victorious crew of last year almost intact while Harvard has but three men who have ever rowed in a 'varsity race. It is the hard and conscientious work of the crew and the untiring efforts of its captain which cause us to put so much trust in the result of the race. Too much praise cannot be given Captain Storrow, who, without...
...human way. The most striking general failing was a tendency to make too many pauses in a sentence, as if the young speakers felt the need of a certain start before making an emphasis, on the reculer pour mieux sauter principle. The lack of by-play was striking, albeit natural, and almost all the participants fell into the error, common to all American -born amateurs, of looking preternaturally solemn-as if the destinies of the stellar system weighed upon their shoulder-when they had nothing to say. Yet there was no sign of carelessness; every movement and position seem...
...packed last evening with the audience that througed to hear the great temperance orator, John B. Gough. Mr. Gough's address, while it was filled with vivid stories, brilliant jokes, and the greatest originality, was also powerful in its argument as well as persuasive in its style of oratory-albeit Mr. Gough said at the beginning of his lecture, that in all of the 8,500 addresses he had made, he had never been guilty of logic, unity, or argument. The address is given very briefly below...