Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the system of advising Freshmen as to the fields of concentration has long been notoriously inadequate and practically worthless is a fact too well known to the freshman deans upperclassmen, and seniors especially, who were attempting to pick their field in the spring of their freshman year. In spite of the fact that each year complaints are made of the uselessness of the Freshman Advisers, the incoming Freshman hears nothing of the matter, and innocently trots about the Yard and the House seeking appointments with strange tutors, who will repeat the same message to each man on the glories...
According to present standards, the acting is overdone; anger is portrayed by swelling of the bosom, stamping of the feet, and vigorous twirling of the moustache, which may be all right for the movies, but is strange to Harvard Square. In spite of that, however, Eisenstein's utilizing water scenes, like a mountain stream immediately after the breaking up of a log jam, the pounding of surf over a breakwater, or the moon rising through ships' rigging over the mist of motionless, oily seas, as symbolic of the feeling of the Russian peasantry, gives the picture an appeal...
...spite of the few defects I have pointed out, I maintain that the Department of Chemistry is well run, and that everyman is given a fair chance to prove his worth as a chemist. The early work is exacting, but with its mastery comes the independence and fascination of efforts to push back the boundaries of the Unknown...
...spite of the fact that subscriptions for the Album have been pledged slowly because of the bank holiday, all subscriptions must be in by Saturday, April...
With this heterogeneous mass Professor Merriman has striven nobly, by means of entry suppers and other gatherings, and largely to his efforts and aloof geniality may be attributed the progress of the House during the past year. In spite of the partly warranted criticisms on the success of the tutors in "preserving themselves from too frequent student contact," these much maligned gentlemen, while confining themselves fairly closely to their own dining table, have not been inactive in other relations with students. The energy and interest of Professor Matthiessen and Dr. Spencer were largely responsible for the extraordinary success...