Word: although
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...could be well-nigh avoided by prudent conditions. It might be provided that money accruing from scholarships must be spent for educational purposes approved by some designated officer of the college. Recipients might be required to sign some such paper as the following, devised by the late Mr. Hodges: "Although this beneficence is unconditional, I hereby signify my intention, if I should be pecuniarily prosperous in life, to refund, in part or fully, to the above named scholarship, the benefaction awarded me." Such conditions, if it were thought best to insist upon them, would reduce to a minimum the disadvantages...
...have been surprised at the amount of credit the Columbian crew took to itself; and, although I admired its pluck in the Henley races, it did not row the best University four in England by any means. Can you explain to me how, with so few athletic men at Harvard, as appears from the account of the games I above mentioned, you are able to get up so fine an eight? I hope it does n't imply that your University is content to see these few men do all the work, and win all the laurels, while it looks...
...Building during the past few weeks, but as they have been fully reported in the daily papers it is unnecessary to summarize them here. We were glad to see Mr. Thacher enter and start in the mile run, and are sorry that he did not get better than third, - although it was an exceedingly good third...
...fault-finding disposition, but in my complaint I am supported by a majority of students, and it seems to us quite an unfair thing for an instructor to give out a paper with as much work on it as is generally to be found in any two hour paper. Although it is quite a difficult thing for him to judge exactly how long his paper shall be, yet he should bear in mind that there are many students who cannot write one half as rapidly as others, and who, also, lacking conciseness in expressing themselves, are unable to write...
...Curtis as "Sir Pierre de Bourbon" was enthusiastically received; his guitar song in the last act was rewarded with a double encore. Although suffering from a severe cold, and necessarily being somewhat out of voice, his skilful acting and graceful carriage won him the merited plaudits of the fair...