Word: spites
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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COLLEGE CHILDISHNESS.EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: It is surprising to note with how much impropriety, I may say with how much indecency, some Harvard men can act. There is a certain crowd of freshmen at Memorial, consisting of two adjoining tables, who, in spite of their sojourn of four months among us, do not seem to have found out the rules which govern us all here. They all appear to be gentlemen, and would doubtedless resent any imputation to the contrary; but on entering Memorial they cast aside all the conventional rules of society, and proceed to enjoy themselves in their...
Last evening Prof. Frothingham lectured before a large audience on Assyrian Literature. He said that in spite of the fact that a very large number of the Assyrian writings had been lost, a great mass still exists. An idea of its quantity can be had from the fact that an index to the existing literature, published in Munich, was an octavo volume of four hundred pages...
...varsity nine began practice yesterday. Although the outlook is not at all what it was at this time last year, we can at least hope for the best in spite of our bad prospects; last year we never expected anything else but success, and yet somehow we lost the championship at the last moment. This year when we have little reason to expect anything better than second place, fate should, by the same perverseness, give us the coveted pennant. At any rate the college will have in either case the satisfaction of knowing that nothing will be left undone...
...spite of the threatening weather, the Vesper Service yesterday was well attended. Dr. E. E. Hale made a brief, interesting address. The following music was sung: "Lead, Kindly Light," by Calkins; "The Lord is my Shepherd," a soprano solo and chorus, by Henry Smart; and a tenor solo from "The Prodigal Son," by Sullivan, which was sung by Dr. Langmaid, of Trinity church...
...mind to profit by it. Special advice is given to those intending to study engineering, medicine, or law as to the courses most advisable for them to pursue in college, but the purposes of most students are indefinite or unformed, and those of others are liable to change. In spite of all restrictions, suggestions, and advice, one is impressed with the great liability of students to misdirect their efforts, or from a lack of earnest purpose to drift through college without any special aim taking things that are easy to them, or that they fancy to be adapted to their...