Word: spite
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...departments and won the annual Thanksgiving Day game in the Stadium yesterday morning by the score of 14 to 0. The field was wet and soggy and rain fell at times during the game so that both teams were slowed up considerably, but in spite of this the superiority of the victorious team was plainly marked. The Battery team was handicapped by the loss of R. Skilton and W. M. Minot '11, who have been its mainstay in former years...
...spite of the wet and heavy ball, both Sands and Snow punted fairly well. During the first half neither team's de- fence was particularly strong, but in the second half the Cadets tightened up and did not permit a single first down. Their line played well together and opened up big holes for the backs...
...England. The University Senate has been empowered to remit the study in the case of men who have served six months, and it is mournfully agreed that the accidental breach in the wall can never be made quite strong again. Oxford, too, has shown signs of weakening, in spite of the presence of Murray as Regius Professor, in spite of the quatrain of a generation...
...appear, indeed, as if the reluctance of the University last year to encourage or sanction even the Volunteer Regiment was to be repeated in a similar unwillingness now to co-operate with the War Department in a patriotic work of great importance. Last year the Volunteer Regiment succeeded in spite of academic indifference and discouragement through the enthusiasm and the self-sacrifice of the student body. It would seem as if it were now time for the graduates to make every effort and use every influence to see that this more important and vital measure does not die of similar...
...reception at the Hollis Street Theatre for Mme. Sarah Bernhardt. They are both heroic figures of the war. Captain Koenig brought the first undersea merchant vessel across the ocean in the face of tremendous danger. His is one of the greatest scientific triumphs of all time. Mme. Bernhardt in spite of her age and a severe physical disability, is still the Divine Sarah of half a century past. She is acting in America to help the country she loves. Captain Koenig has risked his life for his Fatherland. The nations they represent are fighting to the death, but heroism...