Word: stained
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yale easily defeated the Orange Athletic Club, Saturday, in New York, wiping out the stain of the recent game. The day was clear, but soggy ground made the footing very treacherous, and in consequence neither side showed its best form...
...Vesper evenings, we have ventured to place for signature in the office of Memorial Hall and at Leavitt & Peirce's, a remonstrance addressed to the directors against such action. We urge gentlemen who feel as we do to sign the remonstrance; to assist in the attempt to obliterate a stain on the character of the student body...
...playing of the Pennsylvania team undoubtedly entitles them to the distinction of being the strongest eleven in the country. Their score was earned by good football playing and there was no slugging or brutal play of any sort to stain the victory. Pennsylvania's interference was very well developed and at times was of the most brilliant order. The Harvard team played a remarkably skilful game, which was marred, however, by an occasional costly fumble...
...holds as good of books as of men. If the mind, like the dyer's hand, becomes insensibly subdued to what it works in, so also may it steep itself in a noble and victorious mood, may sweeten itself with a refinement that feels a vulgar thought like a stain, and store up sunshine against darker days. It is the books which heighten and clarify the character, whose seciety I would bid you seek. I think they tend to keep us pure. They disinfect the imagination; they fill the memory with light and fragrance. Whatever a man's station, whatever...