Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course the subject of sex relations is one on which it is difficult to reason without overcoming strong and almost inborn prejudices. Nevertheless there is little to be gained in the long run by suppressing vital facts. Both Galileo and Darwin were bitterly reviled when they opposed traditional ideas with scientific discoveries. Yet their work is the basis of modern physics and biology...
During the reading period the Radcliffe news and notice organ makes its appearance but weekly, although no official statement has yet been made in regard to a change of name. Nevertheless it is time for the coinage of a new term--"Radcliffe Indifference." It is magnificent, such scornful treatment of a tradition unique among women's college papers. But perhaps the most significant angle to the whole affair is the weight which it lends to the rumour that the scholastic standard of Radcliffe College is being gradually raised to that of her older brother...
...Nevertheless, Harvard is a pretty live under-dog. It isn't barking very loud, but there wouldn't be great surprise if Harvard squeaked through with a fraction more than the necessary 67 1-2 points...
Yale likewise boasts several outstanding athletes in the person of Avery and Taylor. The former, although incapacitated by a leg injury from taking part in the pole vault, his best event, is nevertheless good for a 130 foot throw in the discus. Taylor attains a 130 footmark in the hammer throw consistently...
...said in part: "While those of us who have been denied the opportunity of a college education are deeply appreciative of the high standard of training which Harvard has set for Massachusetts and the country, we nevertheless cannot but be offended at the supercilious and insulting references which too often emanate from the university. It was not so long a time ago that a prominent professor of Harvard made slighting and flippant references to another section of our city, and now the Harvard Crimson, whose editorial columns have so often of late displeased a vast number of the alumni...