Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plain that the failure of athletic interests has caused the parents to coincide with the sons' resolution to avoid Harvard as that such a fact has caused the sons so to decide. Whatever of luxury and extravagance exists at Harvard is closely connected with her fall in athletic spirit. Ten years ago, before the college was so continuously beaten, the honor of a position on the University team was sought after by every man of a class, college popularity being greatly dependent on the prowess of the bat and oar. So long as the positions were desirable, it was natural...
...extravagance cannot be a dwelling house of strength and the, letic skill, and that hard work on the part of some and strong interest and support on the part of the rest will alone bring the success that is looked for as a necessity. The blessings of such a spirit in college life cannot pass unperceived, and the method to attain them is as plain...
...scholarship fund. Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy were conferred upon Prof. Durell of Dickinson College, on Prof. McNeil of Lake Forest University and on Prof. McMillan, President of Richmond College, Ohio. Among petitions granted was one which shows in a marked degree the difference in liberally of spirit as regards athletics between the Harvard and Princeton trustees. The petition was from the Princeton Eleven asking permission to play Yale in New York on Thanksgiving Day in case the Harvard Faculty refused to allow the Harvard Eleven that permission. The trustees, with no dissenting voice, granted this permission on condition that...
...Brooks preached his second Sunday evening sermon at Appleton Chapel before a very large audience. His text was "Demonstration of the Spirit," I Corinthians; 2:4. The speaker said that there are various kinds of demonstrations which are governed by the nature of the teacher, of the leader, and by the message itself. We have demonstrations in mathematics in which authority and reason are our own teachers, while in the demonstrations of the spirit no authority or arguments can be sufficient for us, because our souls cannot be touched except by the spirit. Every mind requires demonstrations according...
...Butterworth, '89, closed for the negative. Suppression is not needed. The Standard Oil Company has not raised prices, but has lowered them to the same point that competition would have done. It has adapted the supply to the demand, and has proved of incalculable benefit to the industry. The spirit of the times leads to trusts. They sprung up in all directions as a natural growth. The opposition comes from small tradesmen who have been undersold by the lowered prices, and from demagogues who wish to make political capital. Any attempt at suppression would be a blow at modern trade...