Word: though
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...match-game of football between the Juniors and Sophomores, which took place the other morning, was won by the Sophomores. Though a high wind prevailed at the time, the victory or the Sophomores was not entirely owing to this, as the first game won was played against the wind. The Junior Eleven was quite strong, and '77 deserves much praise for keeping up its high reputation so well when brought before such adversaries...
...been carefully reviewing. They are manly enough to command respect, and yet retain sympathy enough with boyhood to win the attachment of their pupils. They have not encountered the discouraging experiences, the damaging comparisons, the censorious criticisms, which are very apt to chill the enthusiasm of a second year, though a teacher of real merit is never seriously injured by them, and in good time learns to regard them for no more than they are worth. The teacher who goes to his work directly from college can hardly fail of satisfying, if not brilliant success, if he will bear...
...Though burnished withouten with silver and gold...
...late dinners presented at their best. To take up the arguments for the other side, it is to be noticed, first, that although athletic sports are important, and certainly to be encouraged, yet the boating and ball interests are not the only ones to be consulted in this matter, though this seems to have been tacitly assumed...
...before eating; but that there is sufficient tension during recitation to produce injury, if dinner immediately succeed, we cannot believe. To recite a lesson already learned requires little exertion, may even tend, by gradual relaxation after a morning's work, to put the mind in a desirable condition; and though study directly after eating must be injurious, yet the necessity for studying at that hour is not apparent, and so few recitations occur at three o'clock that they may be left out of the question...