Word: although
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Although the play in the tennis tournament yesterday was on the whole poor, some of the matches were exceedingly close and well contested...
...plans for the new Yale gymnasium have finally been decided upon. Owing to the lack of subscriptions the committee could not select their plans although the location has been decided upon for some time. The building will be three stories high, either of brick or stone, with base dimensions of 130x80. There will be an open space in the rear of 260 feet for outdoor practice. In the basement will be the bowling alleys, storerooms, and heating appliances. On the street floor will be two rowing tanks, the baths, and possibly the janitor's rooms. The second floor will contain...
...accidental death of Arthur Cochrane in Kansis City, Missouri, the class of 1887 loses one of its most promising members. Although with the class for only one year, he was well known to its members though his active part in athletics, in which he early showed the great courage and energy which marked his career in the west...
...game was played at Exeter on Saturday between Harvard second eleven and Phillips Exeter academy. The Harvard eleven had never played together before, and showed an entire absence of team work, although individual work was at times good. Exeter was crippled by the absence of Heffelfinger, who broke his hand in the last Harvard game, and of Squires, the regular centre rush. Exeter won the toss, and took upper side. Crane started off, and in three rushes gained five yards. Johnson kicked but the backs were in the way; another kick forced a touch back. After third down, during which...
...opening exercises of Clark university took place Wednesday in the presence of fifteen hundred people in the main university building. General Devens began with a brief address of introduction and welcome; after a prayer, Colonel Washburn read a paper prepared by the founder, in which he said that although they had not the age of other universities, they had the privilege of using the experience of many centuries, and they proposed higher and better achievements than had yet been attempted. To the present department they intended to add others from time to time, until the full scope of the university...