Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spite of the stormy weather last night about thirty members of the Conference Francaise were present at the bi-weekly meeting in the club's rooms in the Old Hasty Pudding building. Mr. C. H. C. Wright, '91, read a very interesting paper on college life in France, and particularly in Normandy. Professor Cohn then read the play which is going to be put on the stage by the Conference Francaise in two or three months. The play is a comedy in one act by Jules Moineau and is entitled "Les Deux Sourds." At places it is highly ludicrous...
...must give our opinion, however, that the attitude of Columbia towards Harvard is not correctly indicated by the Spectator. We should be very sorry to think that the student-body of Columbia had become actuated by so discreditable a feeling of spite. We desire to suggest to the editors of the Spectator that simple justice demands an apology for the appearance of such an article. We suggest, finally, for the edification of the Spectator, that the value of criticism lies in manliness and straightforwardness of utterances; not in power to work injury by a sneering laugh...
...spite of the wind and rain, about thirty members attended the meeting of the St. Paul's Society last evening in the room, 17 Grays. After some important business and a short service, the president introduced the speakers of the evening-the Rev. William Lawrence and Mr. Page of the Cambridge Theological School. Instead of the customary address, a very interesting explanation was given of the Church Students' Missionary Association of the United States and Canada formed in New York last year. At the close of the discussion it was decided to send two delegates to the convention...
...concert in the Central Music Hall, Saturday evening, was in some respects even more successful than its predecessors. The affair had almost the nature of a reception. Everybody was in full dress. All were ready to applaud whenever provocation offered. In spite of the fact that the clubs had been travelling steadily for a week, the pieces were given with greater snap, if with less care, than in New York. Encores were demanded, particularly of the banjo men, until the programme was nearly doubled. The Glee Club was assisted by Honore, '88, president of the club last year, who sang...
...possible to find a member of the Glee or of the Banjo Club who does not speak in highest terms of the kindnesses shown the clubs in the cities visited, and who does not assert that, in spite of fatigue, he enjoyed every minute of the ten days of the tour...