Word: spites
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...over, and all is passed, except the marks, we should like to exercise our right to growl a little. In the lectures which Prof. Palmer gave in English 7, notice was given that the lecture devoted to Gay and Prior would not be required for the examination. In spite of this declaration, however, one of the required questions was upon these two authors, and another required question contained passages from these authors, which we were expected to recognize. It would seem, therefore, that "someone had blundered," or that our instructors expect us to be prepared on subjects from which they...
...facts about Spiritualism; The first is that the belief in Spiritualism has become so wide-spread that men of the most intelligent class are not ashamed of publicly undertaking an investigation of the testimony for the existence of spirit-communications from another world. The second fact is that, in spite of the number of Spiritualists, the material for such an investigation is both scarce and unsatisfactory. This is shown as well by the hesitation of the University about undertaking the investigation, as by the fact that one of the first Spiritualists who was consulted was a man of such dubious...
...spite, says the Springfield Republican, of the general wet blanketing of boating there, the Harvard class crews are hard at work training for the races in April...
...spite of the inclement weather, Harvard was well represented at Prof. Sumner's lecture on the Tariff Reform series, last evening...
...left the army to accept the position of professor of engineering in the then newly established Lawrence Scientific School. His work here was uninterrupted in its usefulness until the breaking out of the Civil war. Then remembering his military education, he once more joined the army, in spite of illness. He was made colonel of a Massachusetts regiment and a brigadier general in 1863. His health becoming worse he was compelled to resign in June, 1864, and it was then that he resumed his old place in the Scientific School. Here for the past twenty years his labors have been...