Word: spite
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...field for college-trained men, and in every field so opened the college man has gained pre-eminence or monopoly. But among business men--men engaged in manufacture, transportation, commerce, mining and agriculture--college training down to the present has been the exception rather than the rule. In spite of the increasing volume of graduates who have made business their vocation, leadership in business has not yet definitely passed to the educated...
...deciding to foster the less important branches of sport, the Athletic Committee has acted wisely for the University. In spite of the greater opportunities offered this year to the average man in baseball, track and crew, there are many who get their exercise and pleasure in some less recognized college sport. If these were all officially abolished, a real hardship would be imposed. It rests with the student body to make these sports a success. The Athletic Committee has done its best and is willing to encourage any interest that is shown by arranging outside games. Opportunity is open...
...need have no fear, in spite of statements to the contrary, that minor sports will not be kept up. Jarvis Field will again be covered with aspiring and perspiring candidates, and the Oakley Turf will again suffer from the assaults of the golf team...
...tasks. Many of the colleges have quartered in them some kind of training corps, which change the old atmospheres of academic case to the modern air of military vigor. Apparently the old traditions have been lost forever. But we have the word of the Archbishop of York that in spite of this great change, there is no danger that when the war is over that students will not have the benefits of the long years that have gone before. There will be a change, it is true, but a change that will be a deepening and ennobling of old-established...
...spite of the Susan B, Anthony Amendment there are few men who will admit that women are as yet superior in initiative and originality. Man has long regarded woman as the great source of inspiration for his accomplishments, but he has fondly thought the creative ability his and his alone. The service of our women in the present war has gone far toward destroying completely such an assumption, and a few years may find it thoroughly obsolete...