Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...result of the games was a bitter disappointment to Exeter, and was due more to over-confidence on her part than to any inferiority to her opponent. Her chagrin was only intensified by realizing that one more third prize would have made the score...
...Such a course would end in the choice of the best possible men. And, on the other hand, we strongly protest against this ungentlemanly way of organizing and deciding upon tickets in the middle of the junior year. It can result only in arousing ill-feeling and bitter distrust in the class, and in electing class-day officers who may be unsuitable in every...
This phase of thought has its embodiment in Fichte. His was a life of bitter conflicts and higher aims. In early life he was a Spinozist, but the study of Kant brought about a change in him. He became Kant's follower and rose to fame. His doctrine, known as subjective idealism would be better classed as ethical idealism. The lecture closed with a discussion of Fichte's "Vocation...
...which the spectators went a little too far, as in collecting behind a baseman and beating drums with the obvious intention of rattling him, and in making so much noise that a base-runner could not hear the coaching. Everything, however, was done in a spirit of friendly, not bitter, rivalry, which if it can only be maintained, will be of the greatest benefit to base ball at Harvard...
...Groton. The game was full of errors and very uninteresting. In the early part of the game the freshmen played with more spirit than usual, but seemed to weaken. The batting was miserable, fourteen men striking out. Harvard's battery work was very poor, partly owing to the bitter cold and partly to poor umpiring. Fearing made a very pretty stop of Stone's throw in the seventh inning, and the feature of the game was Hallowell's catch of Gerard's hit in the sixth inning. Toward the end of the game it grew so cold that many...