Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the other side of the Mason and Dixon line comes word of assurance that in spite of the Stakhanovism of the New Deal professors and men of action, life in Dixie is still being lived according to the tenets of a Southern gentleman. A recent graduate of M.I.T., now working on the engineering corps of the Tennessee Valley Authority, has taken the time off to write a friend at Harvard about a minor incident that occurred a week...
...eyed, straightforward outrageousness that reminded readers more than once of Erskine Caldwell, at times of the ingenuous slyness of Chekhov. Readers who liked to laugh with a clear conscience, however, were still puzzled by Author Stuart's refusal to make the most of his Munchausenish humor. But in spite of a preoccupation with death and burial that will seem to many a reader adolescently morbid, some of his yarns were well worth inclusion in any anthology-of-the-year. Some of them...
...hundred and thirty-two men will be rebuffed while 572 Freshmen and 58 upperclassman, a total of 640, will receive congratulatory letters of acceptance. The figures for this year show an increase in the number of applicants, particularly in rooms over the $300 mark, in spite of the fact that the Freshman class as a whole is smaller...
...Jaakko's record as head coach has been very successful, his teams winning the Quadrangular Meet and coming third in the I.C.A.A.A.A. meet this winter. In spring track the team won the G.B.I. meet handily in spite of the absence of four crack hurdlers who went down to the Penn relays to set a new record in the 480-yard shuttle hurdles...
...spite of the temporary loss of Chaco, Varsity stroke, the outcome of the Compton Cup regatta with M.I.T. next Saturday is viewed by Nowell Boat House habitues with optimism, Chaco, due to a cold, was unable to set the beat yesterday and Roger Cutler, second string timer, took over the job. Cutler will swing the Varsity oar again today until Chaco's recovery, anticipated by the doctor on Wednesday, puts him back at stroke in the second boat. In the Jayvees yesterday Kernan went forward to pull the number two sweep and Roosevelt returned to his post...