Word: spite
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spite of the precarious attitude of the University athletic authorities towards the resumption of hockey this winter, in spite of the recent burning of the only indoor rink in Boston, and in spite of the lateness of the season some four score hockey enthusiasts gathered at the H. A. A. Yesterday evening to discuss the problem of producing a University and Freshman seven this year. The enthusiasm thus displayed indicates that the undergraduates are looking and hoping for as speedy a return to the activities of ante-bellum days as may be possible--and there seems little to prevent this...
...America, Hobey Baker, former Princeton football and hockey star, met his death December 21, at Toul, France. While an undergraduate, he was captain of the Princeton hockey team and was one of the most brilliant players the game has produced. Throughout his athletic career he remained an amateur in spite of many professional offers. After graduation from college he played with the St. Nicholas Hockey Club of New York, which won the National Amateur Championship...
...pleasant experience for those unaccustomed to such a stringent routine. As an attempt to combine academic with military work, the S. A. T. C. cannot be adjudged a success; the level of scholarship as shown by the records at the Office has visibly declined. But in spite of all these difficulties, real or imagined, let us hope that the days which have been spent in military drill on the banks of the Charles will not easily be forgotten...
...wipes out the stigma of her early-season defeats. The University team, under the able leadership of Captain Daley, has won from Tufts by the score of 7-0, and from Boston College last Saturday, 14-6. Coach "Pooch" Donovan has rounded a fine team into shape in spite of the short season and many difficulties in securing enough time for practice. This week L. H. Leary '05, and R. F. Guild '06, have assisted Coach Donovan in putting the finishing touches on, and have sent the team through some stiff workouts. The men have been especially coached to meet...
...time of peace, with the supreme necessity of persistent application largely removed, it is at least open to question whether students profit more from the pursuit of study under supervision than under a system of voluntary performance. It is said that many of the men, in spite of the watchful eye of the observer, do no more than gaze stupidly at their books or add their talent to the well-wrought benches in Sever...