Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholastic standing to obtain scholarships nor the desire to borrow money from the Loan Fund. While all men above Group VI have been eligible for the positions, it was found possible to place only one hundred and thirty-eight of the two hundred and eighty-five that applied. In spite of this failure to cover the entire need, however, the innovation has been both a saving balm for many and an encouragement...
...most about him was the fact that he, too, suffered from infantile paralysis. He took crippled, nine-year-old Catherine Murphy by the hand, promised that she would some day receive the treatment which had enabled him to take his place among the nation's great in spite of his affliction...
With the loss of Dean, Wells, Kopans and many others of their calibre, including the entire center squad, Coach Casey faces a trying task next fall. In spite of all the losses the backfield will be perhaps the least hard hit by graduation. Locke, Litman, Lane, Haley et al, will be back in full force next year. But the line situation is much more troubling. Three first string tackles, Kopans, Francisco and Rogers will be gone. To fill their places Casey has Burton and those coming up from the Freshman eleven. Even the brilliant Jayvee tackles, who looked good enough...
...experiment with your theories and test your convictions. By arguing what is right or wrong you never get anywhere. Theoretical ethics is the bank. There is no right or wrong in international law. I can prove that Japan had a perfect right to do into Manchuria, in spite of the fact that it was entirely wrong from China's point of view...
...outlook is fairly bright in spite of the fact that five of the men who faced Yale last winter are lost by graduation. There are six others who played in the Yale series who are coming back. Besides this some sophomores will report...