Word: spite
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Memorial Hall, in spite of its size is now inadequate to seat all the men at once, so they are sent to mess in two detachments...
...campaign in spite of the extensive publicity may not bear enough fruit unless each stay-at-home contributes his share. There is to be no individual canvass; no strenuous pursuit on the street. We are asked to give what we can at our public library or at any local bank. So it will be an easy thing to go through the week without giving one cent to the fund, and friends will be none the wiser. But it will be proportionately difficult to silence that bothersome conscience, which demands that we help to make spare hours of our soldiers...
...spite of our thoughts being over ninety per cent. Military, back in our brains lodges a remembrance that we must not forget our Keats and Shelly. Their influence is a more permanent one than the Infantry Drill Regulations, and we shall gladly receive an ardent disciple of theirs in Cambridge...
...qualified to receive them, the success and value of the work accomplished has been acknowledged not only by the unofficial statements of Generals Wood, Edwards, Hoyle, Johnson, and McCain, and Secretary Baker, but also by the attitude of the Government towards the men who completed the course. In spite of the fact that the general rule for the examining boards of the Second Officers' Training Camps was to accept no men under 31 years of age, a special order from the Adjutant General to these boards required that serious consideration be given to all R. O. T. C. applicants...
...conclusion of the CRIMSON'S volume for the collegiate year demands a short word of explanation. In its editorial columns throughout the year a wider range of topics has received attention than has been the custom of past years. In spite of such range the constant policy has been to interpret events from the view of the college man, and if not to interpret to discuss, and if not to discuss to question...