Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the deploring, however, the Chicago Plan worked. Though free to stay away, students flocked to classes where no attendance records were kept and no grades given. Gradually, the Great Books were worked into the courses, until this year they are 75% of the reading for the B.A. It was not all that Hutchins could have wanted, but it was close-an education not of books about books, but one which places ideas over facts, firsthand knowledge over secondhand interpretations, theory over practice...
...humor in the Yale issue of the Lampoon is worth 25 cents, the corresponding Yale Record should be valued at about $2.50. The Yale magazine is an honest and successful attempt to be entertaining, in spite of the 58 (by actual count) two-line gags. Most of the cartoons are funny; commentaries and stories are consistently amusing. Especially delightful are five two-page spreads of words and pictures on familiar undergraduate situations...
...spite of these handicaps few men were killed; the Israell air corps did considerably better than the Egyptians, shooting down 24 of the enemy and executing several bombing raids on Damascus, Cairo, and El Arish, which lowered Arab moral. Mr. Augarten who found the Czoch Messerschmits an inferier successer to the Garman model destroyed four Egyptians, two better than his total score over Germany...
Adams may produce a secret weapon in the form of fullback Guck Mahoney, who has announced that be may play tomorrow in spite of hour exams this week and lack of practice. Mahoney, former netfolk, Virginia, Naval Base star, is reputed to have thrown a 70-yard pass in his first intra-service game and can run 100-yards in ten seconds...
...spite of all the protests last year about the College's food situation, very little has been changed. There have been no major revisions in the dining hall setup. The poorly prepared food remains to plague student stomachs. And although there were a few innovations in equipment this summer, as official sentiment stands now, large-scale reforms are not even being considered...