Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...itself sets no immediate standard of examination for the college, how is a man to discover for years whether or not he has passed the examinations admitting him to the ultimate institution? And even then, how shall he know whether it be because of his college career, or in spite of it? We cannot help feeling, as time goes on, that the influence and the significance of college are beginning to slip a bit. Things are too ill-defined...
...feeling is general that the Freshman advisory system has not realized all its potentialities. Sometimes the adviser, in spite of comprehensive reference sheets sent him from University Hall, is insufficiently informed. More than a little difficulty lies in the overlapping duties of the adviser, who may be also a section man in Harvard, a lecturer in Radcliffe, a tutor or a graduate student. Interviews more distinguished for epigrammatic than informative quality are the result...
...Expedition started from Sikkim through Punjab, Kashmir, Ladakh, Karakorem mountains, Khotan, Kashgar, Qara Shar, Urumchi, Irtysh, Altai Mountains, Oryot region of Mongolia, Central Gobi, Kansu, Tsaidam, Tibet. . . . On Tibetan territory have been attacked by armed robbers. . . . Superiority of our firearms prevented bloodshed. In spite of Tibet passports, expedition forcibly stopped by Tibetan authorities on Oct. 6, two days north of Nagchu. . . . With inhuman cruelty expedition has been detained for five months at altitude of 15,000 feet in Summer tents amidst severe cold, about minus 40 degrees Centigrade...
...spite of the remarkable record of these past few weeks in respect to dampness, a few sunny days did emerge from the general deluge to cheer those who were beginning to have visions of forty days ceaseless rain. The natural impulse under those circumstances was to don white flannels, exhume racket and spheroids, and travel as swiftly as possible to Soldiers Field; and exactly this was done by students whose number might without exaggeration be described as a throng...
...Girl's transoceanic flight would profit, for example, if there were in it less wandering of the fancy and more satiric thrusts. It is, moreover, a pity that L. C. Jones' bold and effective drawings cannot be provided with better text than that found on page 225. Sill in spite of occasional flatnesses, the general average is high...