Word: spite
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Godkin lectures, which are given this year by Professor Dupriez, visiting professor from the University of Louvain, have been unusually interesting to students of government. In spite of this, the attendance has been small, in fact confined almost entirely to outsiders. This is doubtless due to the fact that little is known of their character. This series of four lectures, given in French, is on the subject of "Proportional Representation in Belgium." Professor Dupriez is one of the greatest living authorities on proportional representation, and he describes a system which he himself helped to institute in Belgium. His views...
...Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock, the University baseball team will play the second of a two-game series with the Worcester college. In the first game between the two teams on May 8 Mahan held the opponents to three hits and the University won in spite of misplays, by the score of 5 to 3 in a ten-inning battle. Frye or Whitney will be in the box today, as Mahan has worked overtime in the past two weeks and will be given a rest before the contest with Princeton on Saturday...
After the game, the CRIMSON players retired to the Woodland Park Hotel, Auburndale, where they will rest up until the Phi Beta Kappa game on Friday. It is rumored that the Students are using their midnight oil for muscle liniment, but the CRIMSON confidently awaits another walkover in spite of this...
...University baseball nine will meet Maine this afternoon on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock. Coach Sexton will probably start the game with Frye in the box and Mahan in centre field, while Harte will be behind the bat. Reed will start at shortstop in spite of the slight trouble he has had with his knee...
...lessening and not an increase in the amount of work. But the fact remains that in any case there is great room for improvement. Every undergraduate is well acquainted with the existence of a large number of "snaps"; he is subject to the constant temptation to elect them in spite of the knowledge that to him they will be of little value. Certain whole departments--notably that of Philosophy--are the worst offenders. If the principles of scientific management and standardization are to be introduced at all, they should be adopted consistently...