Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This looks like the dawn of a new era in the foot-ball discussion. If the perverse spirit of Yale will be kind and considerate this time, and condescending enough to come down from so lofty a station, and meet Princeton half way, the clouds will forever he cleared away. We need not then expect in the fall of 1887 to witness a repetition of the hackneyed and puerile squabble with which we have been burdened for so long a time. We pray and hope for the best...
...unnecessary to remind undergraduates of their responsibility under our present enlightened system of religious worship, we earnestly desire that they would encourage the preacher of the university in their work by a full attendance at these Vesper services. If we wish to show that Harvard has a true religious spirit, if we wish to benefit ourselves, or if we have no other motive than the enjoyment of sweet music and eloquence, we should all gladly take time from our daily occupation to attend these short Vesper services. With a feeling of gratitude to the preacher for establishing this service...
...Chapel Service. Every man now feels it to be his duty to the University and to himself to avail himself of those advantages which at his own request have been placed before him for his choice or refusal. But Harvard is no longer a college. Why then should the spirit of a college still cling to her? Why should only the members of the college proper be called upon to attend Chapel. Every member of the University, irrespective of his school and of his residence, ought to feel at perfect liberty to attend Chapel and join in a worship which...
...eleventh hour declares her intention of playing the game on paper and so to claim the championship. For the past three years she has by her peristent nonsense, destroyed the harmony of the foot-ball league. Patience is exhasted and the time has come when her selfish spirit should be so effectually chained that the college world may no longer be disgraced by such disgruntled hoggishness as it has been compelled to witness in this football question...
...Daily Crimson celebrated the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Harvard University in a most becoming manner, by doubling the number of its sheets and faithfully chronicling the events of each day. We wish to congratulate it upon its enterprising spirit and upon the neat appearance it presented during those stirring times. - Vassar Miscellany...