Word: spite
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prettiest machine on the field, as well as one of the speediest. On the second day of the meet, however, it was Beachey who was the centre of interest. The weather was unfavorable for flying, being cloudy and threatening with a small gale blowing, but in spite of this he ascended some 2,000 feet in his Curtis biplane, and pointing it into the wind, against which he could make no headway, he remained stationary in the air. He descended in a most sensational manner, volplaning and banking against the wind. It was on this day, too, that Atwood, having...
...conditions been as good as might reasonably have been expected there is little doubt that this second Harvard- Boston aviation meet would have been the most successful and sensational meet that has ever been conducted in this country. Yet in spite of everything one who saw the meet of last year could not have helped being greatly impressed with the enormous advance in the science of the aviation in so short a period
That these costly improvements should have been made in spite of the fact that last year the University was faced by a $50,000 deficit is due in very great measure to the personal interest which President Lowell has taken in the success of the Senior Dormitory movement. It is to be hoped that each year more Seniors will be drawn toward the Yard and that ultimately the Senior class as a body will live within its compass, just as in former days the whole College lived there. If the present policy of modernizing is continued in the remaining buildings...
...spite of a very and schedule, the prospects for a successful football team next fall are bright. Not only are a number of "H" men available but the team is very fortunate in that it will again have the advantage of Coach Haughton's experienced coaching. It has been decided not to have early practice such as was given certain members of the team during the first part of last September in Maine, but all candidates will be expected to report, in good condition for hard practice, in Cambridge on Wednesday, September...
...tickets, Seniors and undergraduates promise not to sell or give them away to any but their friends. Class Day is an occasion when Harvard men, and particularly the members of the Senior class, aim to entertain their families and friends in the pleasantest manner possible. Every year, however, in spite of the greatest care of the Class Day officers, tickets admitting to the Yard and to the Stadium go astray and are found in the hands of speculators and others whose presence is not only undesirable but objectionable. So long as tickets are in the possession of Harvard...