Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of the fact that the decidedly superior record of the Bruin squad makes it a favorite, Coach Lewis expects his pupils to give their opponents plenty of opposition. On the outcome of tonight's contest hinges the success of the Crimson grapplers' record in their preliminary season. To date, they have two victories, two defeats, and a tie to their credit. The Brown wrestlers, on the other hand, have won five consecutive victories, including among their victims Yale, University of Pennsylvania...
...which at present form one of the crews composing the present A squad will be dropped to the B squad next week, leaving four instead of five boats in the first group. Each of the A crews which is retained will then elect a captain, in spite of the fact that this arrangment of the crews is not at all permanent. Geoffrey Platt '27, captain this year of the University crew, will captain the boat in which he rows...
...spite of the excellent showing he has made in his two appearances so far in this country, he says he is still in poor condition and will not try to break any records until he feels he is at the top of his form...
...rather than to the framing of elaborate plots. Montgomery Higginson's "The Word of a Friend" builds up with tolerable success the form of Bill the college waster, but fails dismally in the denounement which is designated to dispose of him; and Francis Fawsett's "Fisherman's Luck", in spite of occasional bright phrases, shows neither wit enough to redeem the broad burlesque in the lay figures of Waterly Meadows and Sir Tenterhook Weathervane nor invention enough to cover the threadbare situation in which these persons take part...
...Canton government is sewn through from top to bottom with able young men who received their preparation in the United States. Only three years ago the Canton government like its sickly rival at Pekin was in financial confusion. Today, in spite of almost insuperable difficulties in the way, the budget balances, the armies are well paid, large sums are spent in effective propaganda. A Harvard man did that...