Word: spite
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...boys had their arms so well trained from writing innumerable jokes that they won the majority of points in the shot-put. The other events in the meet were easy meat for the news gatherers. The Monthly and Advocate tried to bride the press representatives, but in spite of their efforts the Associated Press sleuth-hounds flashed the score over the country...
...team has had a very successful season this year. An exceptionally large number of men went out last fall; and in spite of the poor equipment at the Gymnasium, interest in the team has been well maintained. Only one meet was lost--and that to Columbia by one point--while meets were won from Dartmouth and Amherst, and several successful exhibitions were given at different schools. G.F. Evans 2Dv. coached the team...
...English system of Intracollegiate athletics would not continue, or even exist, were it not that the best men of each college are continually sent up for a trial on the varsity. Their athletics would fail, in spite of the strong feeling between the colleges, were it not for these trials...
...conclusion, let me repeat that the CRIMSON has become indispensable and that, in spite of ups and downs, it has constantly improved. Its prosperity seems to be established. Its proper field of work has been marked out. It recognizes its responsibility as the student mouthpiece of the University. The time seems ripe for making it still better than it has ever been...
...echoing defeat, nothing but defeat! It is a natural time to hide one's light under a bushel. The cry of splendid showing gives no satisfaction. It is a poor thing, though a logical result of undergraduate reactionary sentiment, when they consider what the team has done in spite of the meddlesome interference of the Faculty and Corporation. Therefore I say instead of dipping a wrinkled thumb into the situation which at the best has been a hodge-podge mess of pottage, better to stand aside in dignified silence and watch. Then if football or any other sport does...