Word: amidst
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Athletics at Harvard are undertaken amidst a mass of petty restrictions and constant and oppressing difficulties, but none of these restrictions stands out with such a pitiful emphasis of bottomless nonsense as does this idiotic enforcing of a fossilized theory. SENIOR
Professor Thayer began with a brief sketch of Chief Justice Marshall's life, and the events preceding his appointment to the supreme bench. His appointment came at a critical time, when amidst the strife and change of political parties contending over points of a constitution but half interpreted there arose the need of a great lawyer to explain clearly and aright the true principles of the American scheme of government. Cases involving the subtlest points of the Constitution came before Marshall during his long term as Chief Justice, and to the wisdom of his decisions is due in great measure...