Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...strange that our University men, students of history, should be quick to accept whatever foreign ways seem better than our own. If the CRIMSON teaches - and it sometimes seems to teach - that we are to follow what is American because it is American, it certainly opposes the spirit of this most American University...
...certain titillation of the senses rather than to have our sympathies roused at the discovery that their souls and sufferings are at all like our own. And if we investigate general tendencies instead of individual promise, we fail to find any near prospect of a return of the lost spirit of creativeness and spontaneity. In America, on the other hand, though to be sure no one singer seems ready to catch the mantle of Tennyson when it falls, yet the national character seems likely to favor the growth of a new school of poetry that may in the near future...
...cover. They mean to play no second part to the journals of the effete East and the manner in which they receive any patronizing remarks makes the offending eastern editor glad that the Father of Waters and the Appalachians screen him. A fiery energy, a sort of expansion of spirit suited to their boundless country, but oftentimes too great for the resources of our mother tongue, characterizes them...
...Yale team is afflicted with boils on account of improper training." - Spirit of the Times...
...West is always the place for surprises, the place where new and strange experiments are tried. For in the long established and thickly settled parts of the country the spirit of conservatism is deeply set, the desire to make bold strides, to advance new ideas, almost nil; but in the west where the people are extremely energetic and unsurpassedly ready for change at least, and for improvement, where improvement is possible, all conservatism is quite unknown. And so we in the east study with interest what the west undertakes, and accomplishes, whether it be in politics, art, science, literature...