Word: spite
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...team has had to round into better shape, the tie score yesterday does not demonstrate any very great improvement. The single goal was scored by Smart after some good rushing by the forward line. Both goals did some extremely good stopping, and the score was kept down in spite of the hard shooting in which both teams participated. The game was played in two twenty-minute halves...
...decrease in the Freshman class of forty-one members comes in spite of the decided increase in the number of men who applied for admission, that number having been equalled only in 1911. This would indicate a slight decrease in the average intelligence of those who applied for admission or a slight increase in the strictness of the examiners. In any case, no great importance can be attached to the loss. We can, however, relate the percentages of men admitted and refused to corresponding percentages in past years, and here we find that, whereas in 1906 only 12 per cent...
With the exception of Mahan and Trumbull, the entire University squad yesterday proved to be in good condition, in spite of the stiffness of Saturday's contest. O'Brien and Hitchcock got back in the game after a lay-off of several days. Mahan is still in the Infirmary after the lancing of his infected foot, but is reported to be doing well. It is expected that he will be released from Stillman either today or tomorrow, but when he will get back in the game is a different question. Trumbull's bruise seems a little more serious than...
...spite of its recent defeats, there is no cause for discouragement concerning the soccer team. With reasonable improvement and the increasing knowledge of the game which is being obtained with each contest, the material should be rounded into excellent form in which to open the spring season...
...college men in the service, its significance can scarcely be realized. Administrations, political leaders, even business men are continually wondering why more of us do not go into the distinctly honorable calling of the diplomat. They seldom wonder at the fact that many do go into the calling, in spite of the irregularity of tenure and the pitifully small remuneration. And the answer to the problem is so simple that its simplicity has probably caused it to be overlooked: In this country, almost alone of the great nations, the service is caught in such a mesh of politics...