Word: spite
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...keeps it from being as mysterious and improper as one fears it was meant to be; "A Lover to his Too Docile Lady," three neatly turned stanzas on a conventional theme; and, finally, the somewhat ambitious "Sea Lovers" of H. Hagedorn, Jr. This last piece has passages, which, in spite of some tantalizing obscurity, show a quite remarkable control of blank verse and a simulation of emotion so successful as almost to make one believe...
...university wrestling team won an easy victory over Columbia in the gymnasium Friday evening by the score of 7 to 0. The bouts were almost all fast and cleverly fought in spite of the fact that only three of them reached the time limit of eight minutes...
...University basketball team was defeated by Columbia by a score of 5 to 18. As expected, the game was fast and it proved also clean and fairly contested. During the first half the teams were evenly matched, and the period ended with the score, Harvard, 5; Columbia, 7. In spite of Burnham's excellent playing at right guard, however, the University team was unable to score during the second half, while Columbia, aided by Cuthel's splendid offensive game and accurate shooting from the floor and on tries from fouls, was enabled to increase her slight advantage to the final...
...Freshman hockey team was defeated yesterday afternoon by St. Paul's School at Concord, by the score of 3 to 2. The game was close and exciting in spite of the poor ice. Morgan played well for the Freshmen...
...with the lash. Deborah escapes a flogging with a lie concerning her condition. Later she is forced to tell the truth, and her husband resolves to kill her. The young English overseer, who is in love with Deborah, saves her by shooting her husband. In the last act, in spite of a wife in England, and a too curious relative of the dead man, matters are straightened out and the curtain falls upon a happy future for the Shulamite and her English lover...