Word: spite
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This monument is an insult to god. It will be an enduring memorial to the shams of Harvard and to nothing else. It was voted by the corporation on November 27 after mature deliberation, in the face of apposition from outside the board and in spite of requests for delay...
...spite of the obvious lack of team play in yesterday's scrimmage, there was considerable individual brilliancy. G. A Percy '18 played a hard game for the regulars and his body checking again and again stopped the substituted forward line. He frequently broke loose and skated through team B and on one of these dashed scored a goal, but more often he was stopped by the defence because he had no one to pass to. The other forwards failed to support him and made his work ineffective...
...over such a distance. The strain on the heart is therefore a gradual if a long pull, and is not so weakening as would be a shorter race. In a race of four miles, then, when the stroke attains an average of 30 strokes to the minute--and in spite of newspaper reports it is very seldom that any four mile crew can attain to this average--taking 20 minutes to row, the oarsman will have breathed 600 times. In a three mile race where the spurting would be fast and furious because of the shorter distance to be covered...
...this season, the University hockey team scrimmaged the substitutes yesterday afternoon and won a practice game by the large score of 5 to 0. The showing of every member of the regular team was a great improvement over that of Monday. The team work was good, in spite of the bad ice, the most noticeable change being in the passing of G. Townsend '17 who made up for his previous off days by passing continually, consistently, and accurately...
...always a large deficit greatly in proportion to the receipts this loss has top be made up by loyal graduates. The advantage of an amateur coach is one in which the University is alone, for in most of the other colleges professionals take charge of their crews. In spite of this advantage, the University's rowing expenses were larger than those of Yale, Princeton and Pennsylvania last year. The figures for last spring follow: Rcpts. Expenses Loss Harvard, $6,567.37 $28,156.88 $21,689.51 Yale, 5,369.01 24,627.92 19,258.91 Princeton, 1,979.88 4,229.88 2,250.00 Penn...