Word: spite
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first number of the Advocate this year, issued in spite of almost insuperable difficulties, is a credit to the few editors who were able to take any active part in its preparation. There are a number of contributions from graduates, but the work of the undergraduates is decidedly the better...
...bassos, four altos, and a proportionate number of piccolos, flutes, clarinets and first and second cornet players. The band will in all probability furnish the music at the Boston College football game on the twenty-third of this month and also at the Brown game on the thirtieth. In spite of the unexpectedly large number already in the band, more men can be used. Civilian bandsmen and members of the Junior Company are eligible. The former, however, must wear uniforms without insignia. All men capable of playing a band instrument should report to F. L. Reynolds '20, All, Persis Smith...
...spite of its many handicaps, the Junior Company of the S. A. T. C. has been progressing rapidly, and is at present well up to its schedule of instruction. This week the men have been thoroughly drilled in the School of the Company in close order, and next week the schedule includes extended order and bayonet fighting. The bayonet work will be conducted according to the very latest British methods, as two members of the company attended the divisional bayonet school conducted by Captain Harrop and Sergeant-Major Richards of the British army at the S. A. T. C. Camp...
...wear their uniforms all day. Enrolment in the corps is purely voluntary among the men under 18, and as in Military Science 1 last year, the men receive only a half course credit toward the degree, although the course requires really as much time as two full courses. In spite of this, however, practically all of the under-age men who are physically qualified have enrolled in the corps...
...been scarcely mentioned. After recovering from very serious wounds received in action, he was discharged from the British army as a veteran unfit for further service, and returned to America. When we declared war, however, and the draft was put in to effect, he was called for examination. In spite of his recent marriage and in spite of the advice of all his friends who knew that he was unfit for service, he waived exemption, squeezed by his physical examination, and entered the National Army. When his division went into action, Gallishaw's bravery and ability won him a first...