Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Never has Harvard, or any other college, had a man in whom more confidence could be placed, and who is more thoroughly earnest, fair, and high-minded in all his work, than Capt. Cabot. Yet the New York Sun, in spite of its reputation for clean journalism, has seen fit to trump up scurrilous charges which it can not possibly verify...
Dibblee showed his usual form in running, while his dodging in spite of a lame ankle was excellent. Toward the end of the practice, however, his limp became more and more pronounced and Sullivan was substituted in his place...
...spite of the natural chagrin felt by Harvard men at the unexpected result of the Yale game and the tendency to feel discouraged as to the outlook in football, nothing could be more unreasonable than to consider the season as a whole a serious set-back to Harvard athletics...
Saturday's football game with Yale will go down into athletic history as a wasted opportunity. It is idle to go into particulars. Harvard clearly demonstrated her superiority in the first half, by holding her own against Yale in spite of the wind. In the second half, though the wind was in her favor, she could do little better, and lost the ball on Yale's four-yard line. The real game was played at that moment and Yale won, for her policy was one of defense and in that she succeeded. The team and the College have then little...
...nerve to burst the chain of defeats which have been piling up their weight until it has become almost unendurable. The two teams have met, therefore-the one desperate in its fight to prove worthy of proud traditions; the other equally desperate in its struggle for vindication. But, in spite of this intensity of feeling, they have met in a manner worthy of both, and have at last completed the reunion between the colleges which is natural and right...