Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following is the advice of the paper published by the Lawrenceville, N. J. School to the members of the foot-ball team: "Eating ice-cream and drinking soda water are especially to be avoided, in spite of the temptations which abound in the village, as they undoubtedly tend to make the wind short...
...last year. Since the old fifteen-men foot-ball was abandoned, in which Harvard had been fairly successful, and the adoption in 1882 of the present American game, Harvard, until the present season, has not put forth her energies to the fullest extent on the foot-ball field. In spite of this fact, she has this season sent out a team that put Yale, who in the last six years had lost but a single game and that by a score of six to five, to her very sharpest effort to retain her supremacy. And it may be assumed that...
...long continue. We are told that between 1675 and 1700 the students were very "immoral and disorderly," and vigorous measures had to be resorted to by the faculty. The practice of "unsuitable and unseasonable dancing" crept into the college to the great sorrow of the "honorable governors." In spite of all that is said, we cannot think the students of those days so bad as they are reported, for one must consider the sentiments of the time in which these reports were written. The Puritan fathers who held the reins of the college could not bear any departure from their...
...collegiate contest, and it is to be hoped that this success will only stimulate the class to add two more victories in the spring and thus win an unrivalled record. Too much praise cannot be given to the team for their splendid work Saturday. The game was won in spite of the odds which Harvard had to face. It was played at New Haven, where there is every facility for rattling a team, and the cheering of the plucky little crowd of Harvard men was but a drop in comparison with the sea of Yale cheers. The members...
...team on a trip than it is on Jarvis and yell "Harvard," but nevertheless it should not prevent a man from giving his team the support that it deserves. It is all the more creditable to those men who have gone to New Haven that they went in spite of the apathy surrounding them...