Word: spites
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...preliminary meeting of candidates for spring football practice last night, more than ever before reported. This is of special significance, because it clearly shows that the University is in earnest in upholding her football traditions. In spite of the loss of Percy D. Haughton, Yale and Princeton may in no way anticipate capturing the laurels from Harvard next fall...
...fall of 1910, Haughton was successful in building up a very strong team, which, in spite of holding Yale to a standstill, was unable to score itself. The next year, the Yale game again resulted in a 0-0 tie. The University, although markedly superior and carrying the ball two yards for every yard that Yale gained, missed several good chances to drop kick, and fumbled when about to score...
...clown-like career by politely declining the aid of the Hasty Pudding's marked dramatic talent. Although our faith in the efficiency of Bolshevik methods is badly shaken by this incident, we nevertheless still wish to be convented if possible and we are pleased by the announcement, that in spite of the unknown Bolshevik's veiled insinuation as to the bourgeois character of the Pudding, the club will not desist from its determination to present "Crowns and Clowns" for our edification...
...spite of the undoubted honesty of many of the foreign journals, we would follow some plan of anglicizing them. Such a change may lead their readers as far toward the ideals of our republic as almost anything else...
...latest criticism of President Lowell's report to the Overseers seems to me particularly unthinking, even for journalism. The purchase of property between the Avenue and Charles River is a further step toward making Cambridge fit for human habitation. Days may dawn when, in spite of abattoir, trolleys and funeral processions, Harvard will breathe a sense of academic labor and repose. We must not fall into the national blunder of making a desert of empty buildings and calling it scholastic peace, but even such misuse of money would be wiser than the increasing of instructors' salaries...