Word: spite
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Knowing that addition of advice makes for subtraction of wit, in spite of the strong yearnings of the counsellor, we shall refrain from making the usual comments, surpassing the usual exhortations, or triplicating the usual golden prophecies...
...made up only a mediocre book. Its duty to the class which entrusted it with the work of the Album would have been fulfilled with the issuing of a volume which contained the briefest chronicle of the class. Yet the Committee went beyond its simple duty, anl in spite of difficulties incomparably greater than those which have arisen in other years, has made the 1917 Album an improvement in practically every way over the preceding...
Contrary to the sybilline warnings of hopeful pessimists, the First Battalion returned from the firing line with no casualties. In so far as the top sergeants could check up, the companies were in possession of the normal number of ears and digits, manual and pedal. In spite of their being armed--perhaps because of it--with rifles which the instructors graphically said were made to shoot around corners, the men made decently presentable scores. If the targets had been a regiment of Prussians, it is to be presumed that such shooting would have been at least sufficient to knock...
...spite of the many difficulties that have had to be overcome by the editors of the Album, the work has been going steadily forward. Rather than leave out many pictures and material of interest and importance it was decided to have the date of publication postponed. Part of the volume is now on the press and the final preparations are being completed. It is the desire of the committee to have the Album on sale Class Day. The Co-operative Society will have complete charge of the distribution this year. Arrangements will also be made for mailing, and postal cards...
...spite of the fact that the camp is in large part financially possible through the generosity of Harvard alumni and the Harvard government, nevertheless it is not a Harvard camp. It is a national camp. If it takes on more of a Harvard air it will be because more Harvard men have seized the opportunity offered...