Word: spites
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spite of excessive duties on woolens the manufacturer is unable to retain the home market; the amount of importation steadily increases every year.- U. S. Almanac, 1889, p. 318; Whitman's pamphlet on Free Raw Material, p. 19; Bulletin of Wool Manufactures for November...
...Yale correspondent of the New York Evening Post says that since the defeat by Princeton the majority of the undergraduates at Yale are against withdrawing from the foot ball association. It adds that many influential graduates are in favor of a dual league with Harvard in spite of the defeat by Princeton...
...Haven Saturday, Ninety-three has added another victory to the long list. The game was played under discouraging circumstances,-on strange grounds and before spectators whose sympathies were almost entirely with the opposing team, and the credit of the victory is, therefore, all the greater. For in spite of the disheartening support received from the class, the freshman eleven played a steady game, not so good a game as it is capable of playing, but good enough to defeat our New Haven rivals by a handsome score. We congratulate the team most heartily upon the honorable way in which...
...when this interest takes the form of hindering the men at their work, as in this case it does, it ought to be stopped. The passages are often so crowded that men wishing to go from one side of the hall to the other, find it impossible, and in spite of the fact that the crowd is often cleared away by the officers of the gymnasium it collects again a most immediately. Of course this is all due to the thought lessness of the men, but let us hope that in the future they will obey the rules and render...
...year. The protests themselves are harmless, of course, but Harvard's willingness to descend to such low-down measures, thus to go beyond all limits with the hope of crippling the Princeton eleven, has caused much comment here, which is not calculated to flatter Harvard's athletic spirit. In spite of all efforts to prevent her, Princeton will send an eleven to Harvard next Saturday which, although it may not be such a team as the college hoped for at the first part of the season, will be able to play the game...