Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...four years of our college course is a very short time to acquire a liberal education, and in spite of continuous study and cram all his course, the student has at the most only laid the foundations for future study and investigation, while in ordinary cases he has only laid a very few stones of the whole foundation of a generous, liberal education, so that a subsequent three-years' study in Europe is needed to in any way finish his education...
...tends toward the cultivation of manly and independent qualities; and we behold with pride, and make much of the fact, that Yale men are free from what we term the foppery and affectation of the Harvard undergraduate." With this exordium, which shows that habit will exercise its sway in spite of the best resolutions to the contrary, the Record, in the new spirit it has announced, forgetting all bygones, humbly states that "beneath the dandyish exterior of the Harvard man you will generally find the instincts and the breeding of a true gentleman." It utters, then, this pious wish: "Would...
...were a betting man, I would like to wager something that, when the "flag drops at the half" on the race-track of life some twenty years hence, Smudge, in spite of the amount of weight he must carry in his shoes, in spite of his ungainly gait, and in spite of the lead and better position Augustus had at the start, - in spite of all these, - will be more than even with him, and I should not wonder if Augustus were "nowhere" on the home-stretch...
...weakness and loss of pristine vigor; and after finding fault with the titles and subject-matter of these essays, he proceeds to detail to us some gratuitous information about Omar Khayyam, alias Chiam, whom he thinks Mr. Emerson has failed to treat with proper deference and appreciation. In spite of his specious remarks on Khayyam, appearances tend to prove that either our reviewer had a very slight acquaintance with Persian poets, or, happening to stumble on Mr. Fitzgerald's translation of Khayyam, tried to show an acquaintance and familiarity with Persian literature which he did not possess, or had thought...
...boating laurels. What we do earnestly wish is to be allowed to play our little game all the year round, and to receive the good-will and support of the undergraduates. On these conditions the College may consider the foot-ball team pledged to work doubly hard, in spite of gloomy auspices, for the athletic honor of the University...