Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novel ideas, would be spared many of the embarrassments and discomforts of adolescence if it were given early education in sex. This few people deny. Yet, in practice, sex education is usually delayed until a time when The Facts of Life occasion acute nervousness, ribaldry or disgust. In spite of the fact that this is well-known, the movement for public sex education has gone slowly, necessarily from the higher branches downwards. Last week there came evidence of its present situation. Willard Walcott Beatty, superintendent of schools in Bronxville. N. Y., wrote for the New York Times an account...
...Grant. When Grant was put in command of the Army of the Potomac he sent for Sheridan. President Lincoln and Secretary of War Stanton looked hard at him, were not very impressed with what they saw: Sheridan was short (5 ft. 5 in.), "painfully thin" (115 lb.). In spite of his personal bravery he had the reputation of being a cautious commander. "He never, finally, lost a battle. He was careful-he had been long and carefully trained- rather than brilliant...
...spite of the fact that two of Leverett's star players, A. W. Sherman '34, and A. J. Barrett '34, were moved up to the second University team, Leverett House succeeded in trimming Browne and Nichols 19 to 0 yesterday afternoon in an informal game in place of the Adams House game that was scheduled...
...spite of Jefferson's carefully elaborated theory of democratic education, America, in the name of the equality of men, has allowed her higher institutions of learning, her secondary schools, colleges and universities alike, to be clogged with a mass of reluctant, if not inferior minds, to the detriment of the best and with comparatively little advantage to the worst material there congregated. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University was recently reported as stating that 78 per cent of the college students of Columbia--undergraduates--remain in Columbia University or go to some other university for graduate and professional study...
...will be profitable, in spite of their familiarity, to sum up the grounds on which criticism of the colleges is based. The essence of that criticism is an attack on the expert. This characteristic member of modern society, it is seen, has a technique for dealing with certain situations in a certain way. But his course is laid out for him. He pursues that course along a track of definite gauge from which there is no switching. And the specialized scholar is bound by the same chains. He knows the meaning of his facts in only a limited sense...