Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...announcement of the spring scratch races of the Harvard Canoe Club calls attention to one of the most energetic and popular organizations in college. Following the admirable spirit of liberality shown by other college organizations, both athletic and literary, during the past year, the club has opened one of the events in today's races to the Puritan Canoe Club. Owing to this fact and judging from the success of the races last year, and from the steadily growing interest which is taken in canoeing at Harvard, there is every reason to suppose that this afternoon's races will...
...Dartmouth team played a good game straight through. Baehr was effective. He was wild, however, and hit the batsman at least a half dozen times. The visitors batted finely and played with great spirit. Their weak point was their base running...
...knew in its main outlines. The story of the Medea of Euripides was told at this point to illustrate this. The writers of comedy were not thus limited, but were allowed to give free rein to their originality. This is Illustrated in the "Clouds," where Aristophanes attacks the new spirit of inquiry and culture which was growing up at Athens...
...Milton and Homer" by V. I X. shows the superficial resemblance be tween the epics of these two great poets, and their radical difference in spirit and substance. In the first place "Milton's poem is personal and Homer's is not;" then "in opposition to the simplicity, the unconsciousness, the grandeur of the Homeric poems," we have the "singlemindedness" of Milton. But at times both come together in "the really highest poetry...
...subjects to be discussed are ones with which every one ought to be acquainted, and the lectures will, no doubt, excite a general interest. The lecturers are men of well known ability, and will treat their subjects in a most interesting way. We are glad to see the enterprising spirit which the Finance Club displays in giving this course of lectures. We believe that it is the established custom of the club to give such a course each year; it is certainly evidence of a most commendable activity...