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Word: spite (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...average age of freshmen is still too high and remains at nineteen years, at which point it has remained for 10 years in spite of the efforts of the authorities to reduce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The President's Report. | 2/2/1891 | See Source »

...York where they arrived Friday morning in time for breakfast at the Fifth A venue Hotel. It was lucky that there was no reception arranged for the men in New York, as they were all so tired that they spent a greater part of the day in sleeping. in spite of which their singing showed the effects of so much travelling, though they sang with much snap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Glee Club Trip. | 1/7/1891 | See Source »

...trip was a success socially and financially, and the clubs played to large and enthusiastic audiences, in spite of the fact that in many of the large cities the Yale and the Princeton Glee clubs were competing with them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Glee Club Trip. | 1/6/1891 | See Source »

...game between the Rovers and Olympics on Jarvis field Saturday was seen by about fifty students. Those who saw it were surprised at the amount of skill shown by the players, who in spite of being mostly workmen who can get off only only or two afternoons in the week to practise, had been used to the game so long as to have a great deal of prowess. Several men who came up with the team. The opinions of those who saw the game were various. Some who had not played foot ball thought the game rather tame and monotonous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rovers 4; Olympics 1. | 12/22/1890 | See Source »

...best that has appeared this year. "One of the Unfit" is of exceptional merit. It gives proof of a power of analysis possessed by few and of an ability to make details and accessories contribute to the general tone of the story which gives it, in spite of its melancholy, a strange charm. The story has many points of resemblance with the "Decadence of Arthur Helmer" by the same writer in one of the last year's Advocates. It is fully equal to it, if it is not better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 12/22/1890 | See Source »

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