Word: spites
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...complaining about Harvard. That beautiful afternoon quickly turned into a frigid night, during which I went to a party that, predictably, just didn’t compare to the one I had attended at another school’s visiting program. I eventually decided to come to Harvard in spite of this less-than-thrilling experience, but my complaining was only getting started. I was lucky enough to live with wonderful roommates during my freshman year. They got to know me, never judged me, and became my salvation as I struggled with my science Core courses and endured the skin...
...these demographic changes in the student body, was not a phenomenon common to the University’s peer institutions.The Crimson reported in October of 1958 that both Princeton and Yale Universities faced deficits of over a million dollars for the 1954-55 academic year.The deficits occurred in spite of $150 tuition hikes at both schools in 1952 and a successful fundraising drive at Princeton during the 1953-54 academic year, according to the Crimson article.The red ink was particularly problematic for Yale’s goals of raising faculty salaries and increasing scholarship funding.As the Class...
...nothing much you can do with it.”“It seems useless,” she says. “That offers it a little protection in a way because no one is interested in it.”THE PROFESSOR In spite of poetry’s declining popularity in mainstream culture, Valentine does her part to keep the genre vibrant in the classroom for new generations of writers.Valentine held her first teaching position at Barnard in the spring of 1968, in the midst of political tumult. After a month of classes, Vietnam protestors...
...less than inspiring presence on TV. And by the time the first term ended, White House officials were leaking widely that he too would soon be going - so widely that Bush decided to do one of his famous LBJ-inspired personnel U-turns and keep Snow just to spite the critics...
...Public hospitals across the country have shut their doors to all but emergency services; private hospitals in some Delhi suburbs are following suit; trade unions have called for a morning of civil disobedience; and students at India's elite business schools are meeting to plan their own protests. In spite of the disruption, the government has sworn that it will not back down, regardless of who resigns or how many protest. Increased quotas, it claims, are the only way to foster social equality at the institutions that are driving the Indian economy forward...