Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Spirit of the Times says about the Yale-Princeton game, - "The absence of all 'slugging' was very marked and there were no disqualifications, notwithstanding reports to the contrary. . . The absence of useless umpires and the presence of a referee who knew his business was eminently satisfactory...
...regard to attendance on college exercises during the few days after Thanksgiving, we trust most sincerely that the spirit, which has shown itself in former years, will not be aroused now. For what are a few hours with friends at home compared to the welfare and reputation of a great university! Surely it is to be hoped that the farce of conducting prayers and lectures before empty seats will not be forced upon the college by the old-time cutting of the students. We urge every loyal Harvard man to attend his Friday and Saturday recitations with scrupulous regularity...
...fate of our chapel petition. It would seem that Harvard, the source of the most liberal and progressive religious views of America, ought to be the first to do away with compulsory observance of religious forms. But, advanced as Harvard may be in its elective system and general spirit, yet this relic of puritanic times still hangs on her, a fetish of the present. The arguments against the system are too well known to be repeated, yet silent demurring will never accomplish the end that is so earnestly desired. As Franklin said: "Keep pegging away;" thus only is it possible...
...that it contained cannot be overlooked. Setting aside the strictly moral and religious sides of the question, which it is hardly our office to discuss, we believe that the mental and intellectual deserve note. It cannot be denied that there exists at Harvard, and probably at all colleges, a spirit of indifference for general excellence. Men come to college to study, and perhaps do study most faithfully, but if their one aim is to make themselves learned, then their courses at college are not thorough successes. Every man should seek both to bring profit to himself and to give...
Last night a large audience, considering the disagreeable weather, assembled in Sever 11 to hear the fourth and last of Dr. Royce's very interesting series of lectures on early California history. The cause of the troubles which at first were the plague of the state was the irresponsible spirit which pervaded all classes. The early political life of the state was influenced largely by the presence of Southern politicians, so that finally the Democratic party was in the ascendant. The American treatment of the natives was throughout cruel and unjust. They called them bad names and tried every possible...