Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this indifference. To ascribe the cause to the interest in base-ball and foot-ball is not just, for the number of students is large enough for all the sports, and success in one sport ought not to prevent success in another. I lay it to the deplorable spirit of laziness which prevails here to an alarming extent. Men prefer to lounge about with cigarettes in their months, chattering idle nonsense, rather than to devote their spare time to invigorating exercise. As to our training it is merely farcical; there were men on the University Crew last year who scarcely...
Have we not pride enough, have we not energy enough, to put an end to such reproaches? Let us raise money, let all row who can, and let us revive the old-time spirit, when a seat in a class boat was an honor not easily acquired, and a seat in the "University" was guarded with such care and faithfulness that victory was made absolutely certain...
...than the city, because of the fact that one quarter of its members change every year. Men are surprised because there were only twenty-eight entries this year to the Athletic Sports compared with sixty-three, which was the number last fall, and attribute this to a lack of spirit and a want of energy in the students. While the real reason is this: the Harvard man seeks amusement; he finds it one year in rowing or running, the next year he is tired of these and looks around for some new pursuit with which to divert himself. This feeling...
Lying to the Faculty cannot injure the Faculty, for it, being a corporation, has no soul, and therefore is incapable of moral harm. It does not injure the individual, but on the contrary puts him, in the true spirit of democracy, on a level with his brothers who spread a veil before the glaring light of truth for fear of injury to their eyes. The person who tells the truth to the Faculty suffers yet another moral injury, for, seeing himself suffering for the same thing for which others escape scot-free, he loses his sense of immutable justice...
...came in a long way ahead. Guild's crew came in second. Weld retired after the foul, as one of its out-riggers was broken. The referee, after hearing both sides of the race, decided that it should be rowed over; but the two inside crews showing an argumentative spirit, it was found impossible to carry this decision into effect, and the race later in the day was given to Guild's crew. The reasons for so doing ought perhaps to be stated. Before the turn, as we have seen, Guild's crew was ahead, and as they went round...