Word: spites
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spite of threatening weather, the sports were held on Jarvis at 4 P. M. yesterday...
...wish again to call attention to the numerous pedlers who infest the buildings. It seems almost impossible to avert this evil. In spite of the notices posted in the entries scarcely a day passes during which we are not troubled by some suspicious-looking persons assailing us with petitions containing a long account of their afflicted families, and demand aid. We hope the janitors will exert themselves to stop this nuisance...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : Why have we not had a report from the auditor of the Dining Association in regard to the price of board at Memorial during the past two months? We were told that board was not to cost more than four dollars and a quarter. But in spite of these assurances rumors are flying about college that the price of board for the past month has exceeded five dollars. If we do not soon get a report from the auditor we will be compelled to believe that there is a foundation of truth to these rumors...
...becoming more and more evident. That this fact is beginning to be appreciated by the public press, and to be discussed by them, is significant. The examination system has indeed been long established ; it has the prestige of the authority of European educators to support it. But in spite of this, it is fast proving itself unsuitable for American methods of instruction. The writer of the article on German student life in the last number of the Crimson, we fear, delivers a true commentary on American students, when he says that there is observable, in both American and German students...
Although the price of the board at Memorial has been cut down the quality of the food still remains the same, in spite of the predictions of many who did not favor the plans of the directors. We are glad to see that complaints have not been frequent during the first week of the new regime, and hope that affairs will continue to look as prosperously after the vacation as they do at present...