Word: though
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...underpaid college instructors has finally received recognition from one university at least. The raise in the salaries of instructors and assistant professors, which has just been announced-at Yale University, is a tardy compensation for the great increase in living expenses that has occurred during the last few years. Though the action is belated indeed, yet it is a pioneer movement among educational institutions in this respect...
Thus all members of the University, both past and present, owe President Eliot a profound debt of gratitude for his clear understanding of their educational needs. And even though he may not be personally known to all of them, they wish him the greatest happiness on his eighty-fifth birthday...
...more to the play than the obvious moral; that true sorrow takes refuge not outwardly but inwardly, and that death is faced in but one way by going on with our daily life and habits. The swinging of the door that gives entrance to the voice of the son, though we see no body; the way in which the voice moves about the room,--we are convinced by it all until the voice begins to tell how he died and mentions life after death. In that instant the picture is man made; we feel it to be mere speculation...
Yale's baseball squad is quickly rounding into shape according to a statement in the Yale News by Coach Dawson, and the prospects for a successful season are very bright. Practice so far has been held in the Cage, and though the squad is ready for outdoor work Coach Dawson will stick to the cage until there are prospects of continued good weather. There are already two promising pitchers, Lester and Farrel, while the other positions are rapidly being filled by many former university men, just returned from service...
There is a possibility that Cornell Dartmouth, Pennsylvania and perhaps Columbia, may enter into a closer athletic combine. Though these colleges have had athletic contests once or officer each year, it is planned to parallel the system of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton's by meeting thus annually in as many sports as possible...