Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spoken differently if Yale had won. But that is a matter for conjecture only. Harvard will undoubtedly put a freshman team in the field, and thus the problem which presented itself at the beginning of this year will never have to be solved again. We trust, however, that the spirit of improvement which has animated foot-ball men in the past will continue to exhibit itself and that such changes will from time to time be made as will lift the game into its true position, as the most exciting and most skilful of college games. Harvard has ever been...
...majority of the votes cast. A second meeting will be held Thursday, at which, it is hoped, an election will be effected. All the men entitled to vote should remember that the election is for the interests of the college as a whole; that no partisan or class spirit should prevail, but that clique interests should give way to a unanimity characteristic of the general interest at stake...
...operation on the part of the students. The present management is able, energetic, and conscientious, so that no one need fear that what he subscribes will be wasted, or spent in any but the most desirable and effective way. Let the new year be begun in the right spirit, with a hearty response from every man in college to the calls for support of our worthy athletic organizations. Let us put the Boat Club on a sound financial basis at once, and with its present officers we may be sure that it will so remain...
...elected before the close of the second week after the Christmas recess." The candidates must be balloted for at a time and place selected for the purpose, and the two men polling the highest number of votes will be declared elected. We hope that '89 will enter into the spirit of the thing by electing two earnest, representative men for her members, - not by a small majority, but by a large and enthusiastic vote. The conference, as it is now constituted, has much to interest every man in college, and '89's part in its deliberations are looked forward...
...greed for news, exaggeration, and total unreliability, deserves more than condemnation. The item in question will be copied far and wide, and will cause needless consternation. A desire to be accurate, and due respect for the feelings of students and their friends should dictate, to all reporters, a spirit of careful discernment and reliable investigation, before sending to the public press an item of such fearful consequences. We shall look for a public forcible correction of this misrepresentation...