Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financial status of the University and the requirements of a Harvard education. He has repulsed the first by appointing John Wilbur Lowes, a man of practical experience, to a new post, that of financial Vice-President. This is a happy augury for the future. The second problem, which in spite of idealism depends directly on a balanced budget, has raised more complicated questions. The President has not before him the high purpose of making Harvard a place where any man, regardless of wealth or social position, can achieve an education. In other words, Harvard is to be a place...
...would have its shortest wheat crop since 1893, not more than 500,000,000 bu. of winter and spring wheat. The winter wheat estimate was 61,000,000 bu. below the previous month's report. Oats, barley, rye and hay were correspondingly about 45% of normal. In spite of the week's rains, wheat was still breaking around $1 on the Chicago Board of Trade and Speculator Jesse L. Livermore was reported to be emerging from his fourth bankruptcy on the crest of the bull market...
...spite of the most securely tied labels, express company officials state that once in a millenium a piece of express may lose its label, an thereby become automatically stranded, unless the sender has taken the precaution of pasting his name on the inside. The express company urges this final precaution to insure safe and expeditious handling...
After arriving at training quarters early Saturday afternoon, the Varsity was immediately tested on the Thames River four-mile course, and turned in the time of 21 minutes, 15 seconds in spite of whitecaps which threatened to swamp the shell. Coach Charlie Whiteside appeared pleased by the performance. The Jayvee and Freshman boats paced the Varsity for the first two miles, and both were at least a length, astern at the finish...
Evidence that rowing, in spite of claims to the contrary, is not injurious to health, is introduced by the Harvard Alumni Bulletin in its latest issue. The Bulletin finds that fifteen of the sixteen men who rowed in the Heuley Regatta on the English Thames twenty years ago are still living and in good health...