Word: spites
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spite of the rain, nearly ten thousand spectators witnessed the Yale-Princeton game at Princeton yesterday...
About twenty men started from Matthews, in spite of the fact that no prizes were to be awarded. The course lay over Boylston St. to Allston, across the river towards Mt. Auburn, then in a westerly direction, coming out on the Watertown road near the Polo Grounds. Thence across the fields to the north shore of Fresh Pond, and skirting the shore back to Brattle St., where the break was made. Part of the course lay through marshy ground, whereby the hounds succeeded in soaking their paws. Master of the hounds, A. B. Robinson, '87; Hares, Baldwin and Dean...
...crowd of graduates. The undergraduates who were fortunate enough to be first in the number that gathered at the north door, were admitted ten minutes before the service began. Before the rest had entered the standing room of the chapel was exhausted and the door was forced shut in spite of the pressure from the outside. The Anniversary Choir, with its magnificent volume of sound, again took part in the service. The hymn "Machet die Thore Weit" opened the service, and the reading of Psalm 143 by Rev. F. G. Peabody was followed by the anthem, "All Glory, Laud...
...wind. They are very leisurely about getting under way when they start to run, and they do not back up each other. None of the backs are remarkable for the accuracy of their drop kicks in a game; though Porter has once kicked a goal from the field. In spite of this pleasant reminiscence the fact still remains that we have no one in college who can kick as Watkinson of Yale can, or as Moffatt of Princeton, used to. Kicking goals from touchdowns is not our great point either, as yet; but that is an evil that time...
...game was called at 2.57, with Harvard at the easterly goal. In spite of Dennison's kicking and Mowry's rushing, the ball was forced down to Andover's goal, and the first touchdown was made by Porter at 3, from which Woodman kicked the first goal...