Word: spite
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lectures. It is a writing place, a reading, meeting, dining and studying place. 'It is working fifteen hours out of the twenty-four. The multitude of private clubs have undercut its clientele, Freshmen who live in the Union transfer their haunting grounds in their Sophomore and Junior years. In spite of a popular impression to the contrary, Cambridge is a place where young men are astonishingly busy. The town has the distinction of providing more attractive places of loaf in, and less time to loaf in them, than any other spot in the world. And the Union is only...
...after much that has been written recently as to whether the Union succeeds in fulfilling the purpose for which it is intended, the announcement of this decrease in membership is of peculiar significance. The decrease comes in the face of a steady increase in the University enrollment and in spite of late efforts to make the Union more attractive to its members. Never at any time has it offered more than it does at present, and now, if ever, the authorities in charge are endeavoring in every way to make the Union the centre of the social life...
...activities of the scholar are not attended with band playing or cheering. Almost unnoticed and unknown the man who devotes himself primarily to the cause of scholarship labors incessantly for four years and finally receives graduation honors. To him this official stamp of success is his reward. Yet, in spite of the fact that the undergraduate scholar of his own accord chooses this career which he knows receives small recognition from his fellows, when he may be quite able to win high distinction in the so-called "outside interests and activities," he is dubbed a narrow-minded, self-seeking "grind...
...spite of the official score of 7 to 0, members of both teams feel that the game was virtually a tie, as Osborn crossed the Seniors' goal line for a touchdown in the first period. The score was not allowed, however, because of the slightest of technicalities, one of the rowing members of the Junior eleven being detected holding his arms out straight instead of bent at the elbow...
...touchdown was scored against a smoothly running, well-developed team, the University football team has not once been forced to its limit. The schedule was arranged with the hope that the Brown game might, at least for a brief space, put the University team severely on the defensive. In spite, however, of an advantage in weight of several pounds per man, the Brown team lacked that aggressiveness on the defensive which had been looked...