Word: spite
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spite of the bad weather the work of the candidates goes steadily on in the cage of the gymnasium and on the board track. The men are now divided into four sections, each of which practices three times a week. J. A. Leighton Gr., has the general management of the practice and each section is under the direction of the following men: J. G. Ames Gr., R. H. Starr '96, G. C. Curtis Sp., and F. L. Beecher...
Tonight for the seventh time Harvard and Yale will meet in debate. Four of these contests Harvard has won. In the other two no decision was given out. In spite of this splendid record, however, our experience in athletics should have taught us by this time a wholesome respect for the determination of Yale men, and since they are to meet us again we may be sure that they will make no discreditable showing...
...Henry James did for the present. As a critic Pater dwelt most fondly upon those who were dead. In a little book of criticisms, called "Appreciations," we find him coming nearer the present. In this book he speaks of people only, or almost only, to praise them. In spite of Pater's urbanity, we are sometimes conscious of a faint note of patronage in his criticism. The hyperaesthetic side of Pater has been skillfully satirized under
...made in the track athletic season than the enthusiastic meeting that was held in Lower Massachusetts last evening. The tone of the meeting was one which should banish the last remnant of that intolerable cant of "Harvard indifference." Harvard's record in track athletics is a splendid one, in spite of recent defeats, and the whole-hearted applause with which those who have helped to make that record were received last night showed that the men now in college upon whom the responsibility for keeping up the record rests, will do their duty as one man in the coming season...
...spite of all that has been in the daily papers on the subject there seems to have been nothing done officially with regard to an international contest this year. It is hardly likely that any advances will be made before the business meeting of the International Athletic Association in February...