Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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This was too much, and I departed. The first thing I met was the outside door: it was a Grays door. I had a spite against that door, and I plunged into it. As I did so, there was a dull thud on the steps below, and a paper fluttered into my hands. I cannot be responsible for its contents. It is a specimen of a too familiar type...
LAST Saturday was as unfavorable a day for good records as could well have happened; but, in spite of the biting wind and clouds of dust, there was a good-sized audience on Jarvis Field, and the sports were fairly interesting...
...learn that the Bursar is willing to discharge any janitor against whom sufficient complaint is made. In spite of the dissatisfaction which has been expressed, nothing has been said directly to the Bursar. He can take no action until some such complaint is made, and we have no doubt that, if men will only make known their troubles, they will obtain redress...
...indeed, to any man of a balanced and logical mind. If the Bursar has a right to say who shall black our boots, he has a right to say who shall put down our carpets, who mend our furniture, who cut our trousers, and who shave us. In spite of our logical, philosophical, and metaphysical training, I have not yet seen a man good enough at drawing distinctions to distinguish two different principles in these several cases. Thus, while every man in college denies the right of the Bursar to interfere in a matter which is not in the least...
...Private College for Women begins its career with bright prospects for future success. As many as twenty candidates have presented themselves for admission, and among them students from Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley, in spite of the fact that those colleges claim to offer to their students all the advantages of Harvard. We take the occasion to report to our Western exchanges, who have already begun to talk about women at "cultivated" Harvard, that the Private College for Women is entirely separate from the College. It is controlled by persons who have no connection with the University, and is merely...