Word: spites
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Harvard Shooting Club was held yesterday afternoon at Watertown. A very high cold wind prevailed, making it very uncomfortable shooting, and making the birds fly very poorly. In spite of the fact that very few members were present, the three regular monthly meetings were started, which were shot on very low scores...
...dispatch has been sent from London to the associated press announcing that the boat race between Cambridge and Yale University has been fixed approximately for April 15. President Snipe of the Yale navy and Captain Woodruff deny this positively. They say that Yale has not even challenged Cambridge. In spite of this assertion another dispatch announces that Oxford also will be ready to row Yale, and that the Cambridge crew is hard at work training...
Professor Cohn of Harvard gave the first of a series of four readings from Moliere at Miss Hersey's school on Chestnut street yesterday afternoon. The play was "Le Medecin malgre lui," one of the most celebrated of French farces. In spite of the fact that the name Spanarelle is derived from the Italian, the play is French in every respect. The motive of a son trying to get money out of his father is embodied in "Le Medecin malgre lui," along with other elements of interest that become almost as conventional with Moliere as the plots of Latin comedy...
Stevens I stitute had scored 30 points to 0 against Dartmouth, on Monday when Captain Odlin withdrew his men and forfeited the game. The ground was very muddy, but in spite of that, Stevens made some long runs, and by good tackling and blocking forced back the heavier rush line of their opponents. Dartmouth was forced to play a kicking game from the start. In the first half, Stevens scored 24 points, and in the second had made a touchdown in one minute from the kick-off, and forced Dartmouth to a safety, when the latter team decided to forfeit...
...spite of the disastrous outcome of the game there was one feature connected with it to which we may look with pleasure-the enthusiastic support given the team by Harvard graduates. Between four and five hundred were present at the game, cheering lustily for their alma mater. Such loyalty was certainly deserving of a better fate. To these graduates and to the undergraduates who followed the fortunes of the football team, the college owes its thanks...