Word: spite
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hardly seems to realize what a good game the nine is playing now, and does not turn out at all in the way it should. The undergraduates are simply losing their opportunities to see good ball played. It is remarkable that the nine shows no sign of discouragement in spite of the lamentably deficient support which it receives...
...Friday the crew did not get out till very late in the afternoon. They went down into the Basin; and in spite of the rough water tried the hard, four mile pull back. The crew was made up as follows: Stroke, Perkins '91; 7, Kelton '93; 6, Vail '93; 5, Cummings '93; 4, Lynam M. S.; 3, Rantoul '92; 2, Powers '92; bow, Jones '92. Newell '94, regularly at bow, was in the launch...
...cricket eleven managed to play one inning with the B. A. A. at Longwood Saturday in spite of the rain, and to get badly beaten. Harvard's fielding was a slight improvement over that of the Lowell game, but the batting was wretchedly weak. The score was, B. A. A. 51, Harvard 23. S. Skinner made Harvard's best score...
Yale '94, I6; Harvard '94, I3.The freshman game of Saturday was interesting and exciting. Crowds of spectators, tremendous cheering, hard hitting and numberous errors, made Holmes Field, in spite of the cold, a very interesting place to spend the afternoon. Yale started off with a lead of six runs at the end of the second inning which Harvard in her half of the sixth for a moment overcame. But in the second half of the sixth Yale made six more runs, and for the remaining innings the result was hardly in doubt, though Harvard made a desperate fight...
...Grateful Little Cuss," by Mr. R. T. French, is a delightful piece of work. The little street gamin, proud of his robbery in his friend's behalf, in spite of all that can be said to him by way of remonstrance, makes a very pathetic hero, and enlists the reder's unrestricted sympathy. The dialect is especially well done...