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...spite of all the numbers; in spite of what common sense and predictions might have indicated at the time. Sure, maybe their efforts would have been good enough at another time, and another place, and another opponent, but not then...
Manckiewicz accused the national press of ignoring the corruption issue, in spite of McGovern's charges during the campaign, until the Watergate affair began to unravel. The press is unable to treat the incumbent like any other candidate during a Presidential campaign, Manckiewicz commented...
Manckiewicz accused the national press of ignoring the corruption issue, in spite of McGovern's charges during the campaign, until the Watergate affair began to unravel. The press is unable to treat the incumbent like any other candidate during a Presidential campaign, Manckiewicz commented...
...some ten college generations there has been increasingly competent provision for the physical health of students. Yet in spite of gymnasiums and compulsory athletics, physical examinations and infirmaries, certain ills continued. Each term some students would "break down" for no apparent reason. The Dean's office would be overcrowded with men whose delinquencies were the despair of their professors. Too many students, hand-picked for scholarship, failed through some hidden cause no physical examination could uncover. Once in a tragic while a student crime brought publicity of an unwelcome kind and awakened in the public mind a distrust...
...concentration would only further reduce that knowledge, they will say. Yet the damaging effects of cutting down on tutorials can be minimized by increasing the merit of the tutorials which remain. The history department, for example, eliminated one of its two junior tutorials this year, a class which, in spite of the spin put on it by the senior professors in charge, was nothing more than banal busywork dressed up as vital grounding in the science of research. And I have no doubt that many other departments would benefit from similar addition by subtraction...