Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking the field in spite of the rain yesterday afternoon, the squad put on the Green's long and short passes, since in last week's encounter with Pennsylvania, the Dartmouth passing machine worked with hairtrigger precision, although the Indians bowed before the rushes...
...course lecture, in spite of upstart rivals in the tutorial system and in the reading periods, remains the central medium of university instruction. It is, accordingly essential that everything be done to counteract the inherent tendency of mass lectures to degenerate into a dull substitute for student reading. One valuable pedagogical instrument of which too little use is made is the class discussion...
...Nittany Lions are expected to show Harvard a strong forward wall tomorrow, with their chief running threat in Sigel, a lightweight back. With Harvard scouts reporting that the Penn State team merely coasted through their recent game with Waynesburg, in spite of the fact that a last minute touchdown gave victory to the small college, it is likely that the first team will see considerably more action tomorrow than in its first two contests with the weak Buffalo and New Hampshire aggregations...
...suit the new circumstances should find opportunity to do his required reading. The economy effected by the new library schedule is demonstrably essential. It is the only point at which the University has curtailed its provision for its students and the retrenchment should be accepted as necessary in spite of the inconvenience it entails...
...comes instead, and sentimentality, and purplism. But you should see the religious, earnest, suffering man in me first, and then the flippant or common things after. Mrs. Garnett says I have no true nobility?with all my cleverness and charm. But that is not true. It is there, in spite of all the littlenesses and commonnesses." Readers of Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point who recognized "Mark Rampion" as a sympathetic portrait of Lawrence may have wondered how Lawrence liked it. He wrote to Huxley: "Your Rampion is the most boring character in the book?a gasbag. Your attempt...