Word: animus
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...fifteen are concerned. It does not lie in the number, but in the men themselves. It requires only a little common-sense to see this. Eleven men could make the game fully as unpleasant as fifteen. We need only quote the words of a Yale player, to show the animus. By way of apology, he said 'that he acknowledged that he played a low, dirty, mean game, and had always done so, and he believed that he played a dirtier, lower, meaner game than any man in the United States.' This grovelling explanation is sufficient. Its honesty...
...times a parcel of this animus...
...slightest break in our friendly relations through any fault of ours, and therefore hasten to apologize for anything that may have given offence in our last notice of the Review. There was a misunderstanding on our part as to the spirit of its notice of us, but as the animus of our squib was not very malicious, we hope to be easily forgiven...