Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...system, however, in spite of its advantages, is subject to constant abuse. Men are very careless about returning books to their proper places, and though complaints on this head are constantly appearing in the columns of the CRIMSON, they seem to have little effect. It takes more trouble to replace a book on its proper shelf than to leave it lying on the table. But it also takes more trouble to look over the ten or twelve tables in the reading room before finding a book, than to get it from the shelf where it belongs. Men forget that what...
...spite of the storm, a large audience assembled in Sever 11 last night to hear the strongest argument for free trade that has been made here for some time. The lecturer, Rev. John G. Brooks of Brockton, said that the argument that a high tariff raises wages is entirely untenable, and that private self-interest, not anxiety about the condition of the laborer, was the real motive of the protectionist. The general average of wages is entirely unaffected by protection, since the rate of wages depends only on the amount produced by the laborer. It is said that when wages...
...tenth annual meeting of the M. I. T. Athletic Association took place in Winslow's Rink, on Clarendon St., on Saturday afternoon. For the spectators the change form the old gymnasium was an acceptable one; for the contestants, rather questionable. In spite of a liberal sprinkling of resin, the floor was very slippery, balking the men considerably and robbing them of their confidence...
...service as ministers to vanity. In this service some have been racked beyond the limits of endurance. Perhaps none have suffered more than the ill-fated "university." The best of our colleges are as yet not equal to the true universities of England and Germany; but in spite of this we dub every little college with the awe-inspiring title of university, and then stand off and gaze at our work in fond admiration; and, in name at least. we place the Transylvania University of Kentucky, the East Tennessee University and the Upper Iowa University on an equal with their...
...year ago a large sum of money was left by a millionaire for the purpose of founding a university at Worcester, in spite of the fact that both Harvard and Yale, two of the few American colleges which can lay a just claim to the title of "university," are grievously in need of financial aid. And now comes the report from a New York paper that "H. J. Furber, Jr., a rich young millionaire of Chicago, is preparing to found a large university in that city, and will devote $1,000,000 to the purpose...