Word: stinging
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...have no excuses or complaints to make in regard to the outcome of the great game, nor can any number of "ifs" soften the sting of defeat. Victory went to the better team, and the Yale eleven earned all the credit that it is receiving by playing a hard, clean game and doing it better than its opponents. The University team was helpless against a style of play which it was not prepared to meet on even terms, and for which it had no correspondingly effective attack...
...impression--"essay" is scarcely the right word--of "Free Music" in the Union, on the other hand, is very erect and sprightly and sharp, yet with a word of kindliness and seriousness in the closing paragraph, which takes away any sting that might lurk in its pat and pointed remarks...
...team and as such worthy to be dined and entertained by any and all graduate clubs. No one of us, however, will feel quite satisfied, no matter what the circumstances, unless we defeat Yale; but give the team the credit and honor due them whether they have felt the sting of defeat or experienced the thrill of victory...
Perhaps the adverse criticism of this Lampoon will be that too much of its ample space is taken up with the reforming of the bad points of our dear enemy. Ridicule of our enemies has inevitably a sting which is absent from ridicule of ourselves. But it is all meant in good part, as simple fun, and after all, the puns and the really amusing illustrations that interrupt the sarcasm make it, as was intended, innocuous. The man who buys this number of the Lampoon, gets a great deal for his money, in space and in humor...
...last Vesper Service of the College year will be held in Appleton Chapel at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The musical programme is as follows: "O Death, where is thy sting," Brewer; "As it began to dawn," Martin; "The Lord is my light," Allitson, solo by Steward Baird...