Word: dispel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cleverly does this writer dispel with a sweep of the pen all the arguments of the ministry against dancing. "If the Rev. Mr. Harris," he says, "who so grossly insulted all devotees of dancing at his church in this city last Sunday night, would lower himself enough to look down upon one such scene as this, he would at least be compelled to confess that the human form is capable of more poetry than can be found at the average gossipy tea drinks." And then with a grand burst of philosophical sentiment he exclaims, "And does a creating Divinity forbid...
EDITORS OF HERALD: The victory of the freshman crew in the Columbia class races ought to dispel immediately the current report at Harvard, that the Columbia freshmen have not done much more in the way of boating than organize a crew. Their victory in the class races at Columbia has served to direct our attention to our own freshman crew, and we feel justified in speaking plainly of its work in your columns, since the freshman race with Columbia is eagerly watched by all those interested in freshman athletics, and inasmuch as this race is considered in nearly the same...