Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There will be many who look upon the barren results of the CRIMSON's Eating Ballot as a substantiation of the well worn axiom that one may lead a horse to water but one cannot make him drink. Certainly there is opportunity for the analogy, in spite of the fact that the project concerned men and food instead of horses and liquid refreshments. One hundred and eighty five signatures are adequate proof that, whatever be the cause, a university dining hall with club tables is not the present be-all and the end-all of the student appetite...
This Constitution does, however, in spite of the fallacies which to the observer appear sufficiently perilous to condone its partial rejection, serve as a test case for the whole theory of student government. Heretofore in most colleges the Student Council has been a pretty toy, an honorary roll of prominent undergraduates, the efficiency of which is subjugated to its glory. If adopted at Princeton and enforced with the rigidity which in its present form it seems to demand, the system will cease to be only symbolical of student cooperation and will be in reality a vital factor in the daily...
...piano, harp, trunks and instrument books from the trunks, and for luncheon. At three o'clock an audience of twelve hundred was in the gymnasium, one thousand of whom were school children. Tonight an audience of eight hundred brought the number to two thousand who heard the orchestra in spite of rain and muddy roads. Busses with school children came from twenty-five miles away...
...Canada. There are also several high officials of important business organizations. It may fairly be inferred that the training for the Doctor's degree is not so narrowing as its critics have sometimes maintained. Or will these critics argue that these men reached the positions which they attained in spite of their degrees...
...first of which eleventh hour Crimson hobbles accounted to a large extent for the unexpected victory of the Southerners. In the contest at Williamstown last Saturday, Williard Howard '28, converted infielder, held the opposing hits well in check and succeeded in warding off any serious damage in spite of the frequent flaws in his support...