Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Choate. There is one thing, however, by which Harvard's opposing teams are greatly benefited, and that is that they are allowed to play with professional nine. Yale and Princeton have already arranged some half a dozen games apiece with professional teams during the month of April. In spite of these odds, it was only two years ago that Harvard succeeded in overcoming them, and with a sufficient amount of energy, perseverance and steadiness there is no reason why she should not make a good showing again this year...
...ball league has been settled to the satisfaction and advantage, let us hope, of all parties. Yale's attitude all along has been little understood by the outside world, and in consequence many untrue charges have been laid at our door. The base-ball management and the University, in spite of these charges to the contrary, have been honest in all their negotiations and decisions. Yale has simply taken the ground that the question of withdrawing from a league which embodied many pleasant relations and which had its advantages, and forming another league, was a question of vital importance...
...triple league, and their action in the matter has been perfectly honest and straightforward, but they were hampered by the feelings of a part of the college and of the graduates. Now the committee have full power and they have decided to enter the new league in spite of violent opposition from a number of men in college. For Yale has been placed in an extremely unfortunate position by the action of Princeton and Harvard, and now it looks as though she was being forced into the new league. It is for this reason that many Yale men desire...
...Harvard team lost about six inches to a team from the B. Y. M. C. U. on the drop. Easton rose to the occasion, however, and won this trial heat by fifteen inches. In the final heat Harvard lost the drop to Technology by about two inches. In spite of plucky up-hill work by our team, Technology kept the advantage to the end and won by about the same distance...
This week is the dividing line of the two half-years, when society defers to the Lenten season, and the long line of class and society dinners begins. Everybody recognizes this to be the free time of the college year, the calm in the midst of the storm. In spite of the theses which were "sprung" uponsome of us immediately after mid-years, college work now presses very lightly upon us. It sat thus lightly on our shoulders at the beginning of the fall term; but the settlement of ourselves and our winter's work claimed much of our spare...