Word: spite
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...achieve distinction do so at an early age. Whether measured by achievement in academic courses, honors in professional and technical courses, salary earned after graduation, or inclusion among lists and directories of eminent men, success in later life is suggested by the early work of the school curriculum. In spite of frequent comments to the contrary, the school curriculum would seem to constitute a most useful test in prognosticating at least the most probable quality of the individual's later work...
...shows how much "music" a stove covered with suitable pots and pans can yield. The music as a whole is lively and gay, with a rythm and refrain not easily lost. "Canary Cottage" and "I Never Knew" are the real game of the piece and keep you whistling in spite of yourself...
...other hand, the University has only once been defeated by M. I. T. and should have an easy time continuing this record tomorrow evening. The squad has been handicapped by poor ice surfaces in the Arena during the past week but in spite of this there has been a steady improvement in the style of play. Each individual has been learning to efface himself for the good of the team so that spectacular plays have been infrequent in the practices and the men are working more and more as a unit...
...victory of the season last night by defeating the Boston Hockey Club 7 to 2, at the Arena. The playing on both sides was ragged, but the Crimson seven worked together so much better than their opponents that the final result of the game was never in doubt. In spite of the erratic playing of the University team there is room for encouragement in the fact that such a large score was made and that individual effort played a very much smaller part in obtaining the goals than it has earlier this season...
...University eleven failed to win a single league game. Evidence of the success of Coach Burgess' efforts was prominent in the next league game at Ithaca, when the University team played Cornell in a hard snowstorm and came out the victor, the score being 4 to 2. In spite of the condition of the field, unified playing characterized the playing of the University team...