Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...great many cliques, and very narrow ones. In each class there are one or two swell cliques, devoted to lawn-tennis and clothes; an athletic set, who spend hours in exercise of various sorts, and the rest of their time in feeling each other's muscles, and reading the "Spirit of the Times"; a studious crowd, to which no man is admitted whose average is n't over 85 per cent, and whose members think they know more than any instructor in college, and spend their spare hours in reading the classics or philosophy for amusement; and an infinite number...
Cornell - The warlike note of the Cornell eagle is heard from time to time in the columns of the Spirit of the Times, and last week he asserted that "Harvard had not as yet answered the challenge from Cornell for a race, and must, to preserve her honorable reputation with the world, come out and say what she will do, lest every one think she is trying to gain time, as she did last year in the Freshman race. She must accept Cornell's challenge, or the world will say that she was intimidated by the jeers of Yale...
...following extract from the Spirit of the Times states very plainly the relation of Cornell to Harvard...
SINCE the above was in print, we have received from the Superintendent of the Post Office a letter which we print in our Correspondence and to which we would call special attention. Its friendly spirit makes any comment of our own unnecessary...
...Greenpoint Athletic Club held a field meeting Nov. 9, in which the handicapper distinguished himself more than the contestants. The following record of his blunders is clipped from the Spirit of the Times. We print it as showing the blunders that are frequently made in giving men distance...