Word: spites
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Underlying this activity for Harvard there was a motive, so strong that, in spite of doctors' orders, he made trips to Cambridge to speak before Memorial Day gatherings and each new Freshman class. The triumph of this motive made him a master financier and the foremost private citizen of the Commonwealth. He desired "men who could be trusted." What could not be done if we worked entirely with trustworthy men? Only with such did he deal; and in so far as he could, he labored that all Harvard men should "remain within the truth." In his address to the Class...
Switzerland, in spite of conscription, is not notably militaristic--because she cannot possibly profit from a war with any of the nations she can possibly have to fight; and knows it. Does Mr. Chandler suggest a parallel...
...View of his hunting companion. It was then that the latter suddenly fired at a bird which had taken wing directly in line with Mr. Merriman. Much of the charge of duck shot entered his head, neck and chest, wounding him severely, particularly in the right eye. In spite of his wounds however, he was able to get himself to the railroad station, and from there to Boston. Since then he has been improving under the care of Dr. David Cheever '97, and if his condition permits by the end of the week he will be removed to a hospital...
...undergraduates have learned a good bit of the old-time sport in this last week. The mass meeting Wednesday was crowded; the parade to the field Thursday, in spite of the bad weather, was large and spontaneous; the cheering at the game itself was good. But from now on, the mass meetings must be more than crowded; the parades must be more than large; the cheering must be more than good...
Ithaca, N. Y., November 7.-After dragging through two 45-minute halves and two five-minute extra periods the game here this afternoon between the Cornell university soccer team and the visiting Harvard eleven terminated in a 2-2 tie. In spite of exceptionally hard and fast playing and brilliant foot-work on both sides, neither aggregation was able to break the tie by scoring a winning goal...