Word: spites
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale Anglo-Saxon elective is frequented by one senior and one junior, but the Italian elective has one senior and two juniors, while Spanish has 18 men. In spite of Prof. Whitney's very great eminence in Sanskrit, only one student takes...
...students the class day of '85 will be no exception to the long line of brilliant days of the past. The committee hope in one respect to improve upon the past, and that is in keeping out of the yard objectionable persons who have entered in the evening in spite of the most strenuous efforts of those in charge. This year unusual precautions will be taken; the gate-keepers will be especially instructed and the tickets will be distributed with the greatest care. But all of this will avail little unless every student does his utmost to help the committee...
...required for this purchase is $20,000. In spite of the hard times, we have thought it worth while to make this statement, being not without hope that among the many friends of education, some might be willing to help us in providing a suitable habitation, where our enterprise, so successfully begun, may find room for its natural growth and expansion...
...good friend, the Princetonian, takes issue with us agian on the elective system. In the last editorial on this subject, however, the main point asserted in an earlier article is abandoned, and it is admitted that "men can and do work hard and earnestly at Harvard," in spite of the "notorious" tendency of her students to make life as easy as possible by selecting soft courses. After making this admission, the Princetonian enters on a discussion of the main question, and makes the following stock objections to the Harvard regime. It is maintained in the first place that work...
...spite of the heavy clouds and occasional showers of Saturday afternoon, nearly 1200 people gathered on Holmes Field to see the championship game with Brown. When the nines came upon the field it was found that the grass had become so wet that anything like good plying was impossible. It was therefore decided to play an exbibition game-in order to save the gate money-and the Brown nine was sent to the bat. Winslow and Jones formed the Harvard battery, while the Brown team played in their regular positions. After two innings had been played, at which time...