Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...string orchestra rendered a characteristic "Evening Song" in the true spirit of the work. Heinz Von Stein, an admirable numorous adaptation of the two great themes from "The Walkure" was the best bit of singing the club has done for a long while. The attack was good, and the volume well sustained throughout...
...creating a love of low ribaldry or other coarse wit. Some time ago a number of juniors had the pleasure of seeing their nine win a game of ball through their skill at "rattling." Yesterday the sophomores copied those tactics. The freshmen tried to chime in, and now the spirit of interference seems to be in full sway...
...above clipping gives evidence of that spirit of newspaper work which is now doing so much to lower the tone of the press in this country. In a vain search after reputation as a brilliant reporter, the unscrupulous newspaper man hunts around for exciting news. When none can be found, an inaugriative brain has been known to concoct falsehoods and publish them with brazen effrontery. Colleges especially are exposed to this newspaper pest. The doings of students are always painted in the loudest tints and an indiscretion is magnified into a crime...
...great school nurseries for Oxford and Cambridge, and there is no honest athletic pastime but what is encouraged and enjoyed in these schools, the oldest of which (Winchester) has just celebrated its 500th anniversary. Where is there a school in our country where on a Saturday you can see spirited contests in running, leaping, cricketing, foot-balling, rowing and (mind you) all of this is a part in the physical education of the boy? My experience has been with American boarding-schools, that the faculty does not place sufficient confidence in the lad, and his "honor," part of character...
...commission was appointed in Massachusetts in 1876, of which Charles Francis Adams was the leading spirit...