Word: spite
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...keep clear ourselves of all entanglements with it. Between these positions there are all degrees, and any one who thinks that public opinion is ready to stake the country's honor on any extreme point can not have read the newspapers or talked with many men. In spite of our familiarity with the name of the Monroe Doctrine the question of our present foreign policy comes as a new one, so long have we happily been exempt from any serious complication, and we are now totally unprepared with any definite policy respecting South America which can command general public support...
...lies in his power to help to turn out the best possible team, whether by coming forward as a candidate, if he likes ballplaying, or by giving his moral support to the nine if he cannot try for it himself. We mention the "honor" of the University advisedly, in spite of the fact that in Saturday's issue we deprecated its undue use as a motive for supporting University teams, since the honor of the University has been very seriously impugned in some of the daily papers. Because there was more than one candidate for the position of captain...
Stevenson, said Mr. Copeland, was indirectly one of the chief motive forces of the brother Scots who have followed him in writing; and directly the inspiration of the longer romances of Mr. Barrie and Mr. Crockett. In spite of the many brilliant merits of "The Little Minister," it is seriously faulty as a work of art, because the sweet and pungent realism of the Little Minister part of the book is mingled but not blended with the psendo-romance of Babby the Egyptian and her wonderful pranks. As "The Little Minister" is sadly inferior to the homogeneous perfection...
...added that the work shown in these last efforts, was more encouraging, and gave the first true prediction of the game's result as it really turned out. Previously in the season Yale's opinions were very reserved, and there was hope instead of confidence, in spite of the encouraging press opinions and the reliance the public seemed ready to put in that hackneyed article, "Yale sand." The Princeton game this year was undoubtedly a hard-fought, even, honorbly played contest, which ought to do a great deal for the continuance of this branch of athletics. Undergraduates have never before...
...last fact with which we are impressed is the profound mystery hovering about the end of life. It is surrounded with a peculiar interest for all thinking men. In spite of scientific discoveries, we find ourselves continually falling back on the impenetrable mystery in which death is shrouded. The more we learn, the more we crave. New knowledge only reveals mysteries wider and deeper than ever. Friends and loved ones leave us for we know where. Love remains; therefore the sense of mystery still lives...