Word: spite
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spite of careful training, breaks down under the work required of him here is certainly too weak to row. The danger arises not from too much work but from too lax training. And the manner in which college men can aid the trainers of teams is by refusing the encouragement of their presence on occasions when training rules are disobeyed; then if the candidate continues in his dishonorable course, those who know the facts should inform the captain of the team for which he is trying...
...spite of the bad weather there was a good attendance at the vesper services in Appleton chapel yesterday afternoon. The exercises began with Le Jeune's anthem "Jerusalem the Golden." Rev. F. G. Peabody led in prayer, and the forty-sixth Psalm was read responsively. The Rev. Dr. McKenzie preached a short sermon based on the words found in the fourteenth chapter of St. John, where the disciples, when asking to see God in person, are told by Jesus that "he that hath seen Me, hath seen the Father." We know that God is present everywhere, and that...
...entirely with Yale. Captain Allen of the Yale crew sent a very decided refusal to Cornell's challenge last December saying "We (Yale) will row with Harvard and with no other university." Cornell's challenge to Harvard, issued late in December was also refused for the same reasons. In spite of this seemingly final decision on the part of both Yale and Harvard, Cornell appears not to have given up hope of still arranging for a race with Yale. It is said that, if Yale refuses her challenge again, Cornell will issue another challenge to Harvard. It is decidedly improbable...
...Scott L. S., stated that a national law could deal with the existing evil better than state laws, a national law could be best made by a national legislature. The evil of emigrants seeking divorce was a real one in spite of the statements of his opponents...
...little loss of ground as possible and crying 'down' at once. Fortunately for football there were a few men, like Mr. Manning of Harvard, who, by the way, had practically the deciding of the question of the five yard rule, among the football legislators, who were determined, in spite of any college prejudice, to make rules that should insure the victory indisputably to the superior team. Through the unceasing efforts of these men a rule was at last formulated which made it necessary for a team to make a considerable advance or retreat in every three attempts, and this...