Word: spites
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spite of the rain yesterday afternoon, at half-past three o'clock the football men were practicing on Jarvis field. The ground was in excellent condition as the rain had not fallen in sufficient quantity to soften it. After an hour's energetic play the men were ordered to take a few turns on the running track, while Kimball and Peabody remained to practice kicking. The first few days of training are always the hardest and the countenances of many showed that yesterday was their first hard work after a few months of rest. The number of old players...
...list instead of at the top. On the Thames, our crews which began the year under as favorable suspicious as ever attended a crew, went to pieces at New London, barely won a race from Columbia's wretched crew and were beaten by Yale, Everyone knows how Yale in spite of several new men in the boat and a radically changed stroke, by houest and intelligent work, backed by honest enthusiasm, turned out a crew which won honor for their college and themselves. Comment is unnecessary. In baseball, with by far the best nine in the league, we gave...
...England. J. Parker Norris, so well known as a Shakespearean scholar and collector, is not likely to be lacking in a reverence for Shakespeare, and yet, in discussing the question, "Shall we open Shakespeare's Grave?" he did not hesitate to argue in favor of opening it, in spite of the anathema carved on the tombstone. Frank Vincent, Jr., whose travels in Burmah and Siam make him an authority on the subject, will have a paper on "White Elephant," maintaining that a white elephant has never been allowed to leave Asia...
...examination held in that room is rather a test of physical endurance than of knowledge. But there seems to be such ignorance among those who have charge of our examinations in regard to the ventilation of this room that year by year examinations are held in it in spite of the great heat and the bad air which are its chief characteristics. We wish to publicly call attention to this state of affairs, and urge that for the future, if it be too late to change now, all examinations which would be held in U. E. R., be held...
...game of yesterday cannot fail to give satisfaction to every one interested in the success of the nine. The ability to play a steady up-hill game in spite of a strong lead in favor of the opposing nine is a proof that the preliminary work has not been in vain. The fielding of our nine was far superior to any of the previous work of the nine, while the batting was very fair. The steady work of the battery was the special feature of the game and gives promise of success in the future. A game of such length...