Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fellows who cheat now would stop." This man was a gentleman himself, prominent in athletics, and popular in his class, - a very favorable specimen of what outsiders would call the representative Harvard type. If such a one as he could seriously speak of a "nice fellow" as cheating, in spite of your recent editorials, I should say public opinion was very far from sound...
...recent editorial in the News claims that, in spite of criticism. "Yale, as a college is unsurpassed." To support this somewhat bold assertion, it makes the statement that "It is on its traditions that a college can claim its pre-eminence;" that "the closeness of our college requirements forbids any stagnation, it makes necessary a wideness of acquaintance and interest; it has produced what has come to be worded 'Yale enthusiasm...
...strides to catch up with our older universities. Her endowment, if we mistake not, is already larger than Harvard's; she can pay her professors more; and living at Cornell is cheaper than here. All these advantages over us may in time make her a strong rival. But in spite of lack of means, poorly paid professors, and the high cost of living here, Harvard still has the priceless advantage of being the oldest seat of learning in the country. She has the largest and most famous body of alumni. Then in common with Yale and all the older colleges...
...endless, so that faith in time may be endless also. With such a limitation in mind we are willing to say, with the Princetonian, not that time will, but that time may show Princeton "the most advanced college of America." If she becomes this, however, the Princetonian in spite of its excellent logic, can only say, "We dreamed it would be so," not "We proved it would...
...does not want to be a physician enough to be so in spite of all hindrance, he ought not to be one at all. In medicine particularly a man is confined to his work, and he is unfortunate who cannot find his enjoyment in this work. While a physician should always have in mind the great object of the profession, - the doing of good to his fellowmen, - there is still to be regarded the aim of earning a livelihood. With this aim the world gets along better than if all men were distinguished philanthropists. Abroad, the profession is under supervision...