Word: spite
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...practically fill the Stadium and the H. A. A. treasury, no matter whether Harvard play the Southwestern Baptist College or the Arizons Aggies a war-tired public is ravenous for any kind of football. But the University team, in spite of its irrefragable prestige, where does it actually rank at the end of the season...
...present there are over thirteen hundred registrants for the University Extension Courses given in Boston by members of the teaching staff of the University and of other local colleges and universities. In spite of the increase over last year's total of 1184, however, it is pointed out by the University Extension Commission that registration is still far from complete...
...recent meeting of the local committee special attention was called to the commendable work done by the educational group, composed mostly of schoolmasters and college professors. It was reported that in spite of confining duties this group had rounded up nearly half of their assignments and had succeeded in obtaining approximately $25,000 up to last night, form what is agreed to be the poorest paid department in professional life...
...spite of the fact that ministers and theological students were exempt from service, the Divinity School has established an enviable record during the war by furnishing a large number of officers in various branches of the military service, in addition to the men who served as chaplains. This has been brought to light through the recent report made to the Board of Overseers by the Reverend Paul Revere Frothingham '86, chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Divinity School...
...further pointed out in this report that, in spite of the fact that this department suffered from the war the same as the other departments of the University, it was nevertheless very active and progressive during this period. This is shown particularly in the recent movement to better the conditions of co-operation with affiliated schools which have been developed here in Cambridge within the last few years, and was also exemplified by the interdenominational meeting held in Cambridge in the summer...