Word: spites
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nine's twenty-five yard line, all attempt to get it further up the field proving of no use, as the strong wind effectually stopped the freshman half-backs from kicking far. Eighty-six had many chances to score which were lost through bad fumbling and careless passing. In spite of these drawbacks, they scored fairly rapidly. Burnett, Vogel and Gilman all making touch-downs, from none of which were goals kicked owing to the wind. About this time. Morgan wrenched his knee and was forced to retire, Newell taking his place. There then remained but about five minutes...
...university was represented as being three less than the number enrolled in the catalogue of last year, must be at once corrected. The university is growing. This year in particular, far from showing any diminution in the number of students, exhibits an encouraging increase of almost sixty. Yet in spite of this correction of the mistake made yesterday, we look forward with cheerful expectancy to the mails which shall bring to us the next week's numbers of our widely scattered and highly esteemed contemporaries. "The decline of Harvard's popularity" will form a large part of their editorial comments...
...spite of the unfavorable weather yesterday, the tournament was completed before four o'clock. In the singles Lee beat Federhen, 6-4, 6-3, and in the finals was beaten by Philip Sears after a brilliant contest, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5. In the last round of the doubles, the Sears brothers beat Kuhn and Keep, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Philip Sears is the college champion in singles, and he and his brother hold the championship in doubles. The tournament was a great contrast to last year's, the playing being spirited throughout and the whole affair...
...never very heartily supported and one cause was, undoubtedly, the "lectures" with which each meeting was opened. The subject was chosen by the lecturer and judging from their titles, the lectures must have been very truile and dull. Questions bearing upon politics and slavery were rarely discussed, in spite of the strong political feeling at the time...
...spite of the intolerable heat of the afternoon a crowd of almost 6,000 paying spectators gathered to witness the contest, while some 2,000 more watched the game as best they could from outside the fence. The reserved seats were crowded with ladies, by whom the crimson was liberally displayed...