Word: spites
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...disappointment to many that Mr. Goodwin was prevented by ill-health and stress of work from delivering the poem. This part was written upon very short notice by Mr. Osborne, and in spite of the difficulties attendant on this, he succeeded in producing as entertaining an occasional poem as we remember hearing. The local allusions, as he summed up the four years' experience of seventy-three, were capital, and the audience were very enthusiastic throughout. The introduction struck us as so excellent that we take the liberty of quoting...
...Harvard Glee Club and the Pierian Sodality will give their first concert of the season at Lyceum Hall, on Tuesday evening, March 25. We learn that the Pierians are playing even better than usual this winter; while, in spite of many obstacles, the Glee Club will, we doubt not, acquit itself well. The Pierians are to play the overture, Le Lac de Fees, by Auber, the Inman Line March, Grafenberger waltzes, minuet by Mozart, solos for the cornet and violoncello, and a piano-forte duet. The Glee Club will try conclusions with May-Night, by Abt, Trooper's Song...
...writer sits down for the purpose of producing a witty article, one that shall make the public laugh in spite of itself; an onerous task for two reasons, - the public is decidedly opposed to laughing without being tickled, and it is exceedingly difficult to find a sensitive spot whereon to apply the straw. By public we mean the average mass of thinking men and women, excluding wholly that class of constitutional gigglers who laugh alike at David's solemnity and Twain's humor...
College journalism has a borrowed vice. Young men, getting a pen into their hands, use it recklessly in spite of the warning of good taste. They forget that they pretend to be gentlemen, hence unpleasant contests. Hard words, we believe, should be reserved for those cases where men wilfully persist in wrong action. Such cases, it is needless to say, rarely occur in college. It is an evil of the same kind, though not of the same degree, to try to convince by epithets, as to have recourse to bowie-knife and revolver when the pen has failed...