Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...classics less important, but other studies more important. In the appointment of a Latin orator, Yale boldly avows her intentions not to give up studies which have been of inestimable value to generations of students, just as surely as in each of her many forward steps she shows the spirit of true progress...
...Record. Yale has ever been noted for the zeal with which it clings to time honored institutions, even after they have passed their usefulness, and for the bitterness with which it resists any innovations; it is not, therefore, surprising that the college press should be tinged with the same spirit of subserviency to ancient things...
...judgment on subjects which are now agitating the college world. In speaking of the success of the partially elective system at Yale, the Courent thus says: "Our ideal culminates in an education which shall adapt it, self to the pressing necessities of life, and be in harmony with the spirit of the times. Yale never occupied as favorable a position in the eyes of the public as at the present time. While vigorously defending whatever has been most conducive to success in her past policy, she has discarded many of the old ideas of education as antiquated and unprofitable...
Compare with this the following extract from the Record: "There is a spirit evincing itself in the first two years of our life here, which, however much it may be deplored in its more disorderly manifestations, is yet one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful agent, in forming and strengthening athletic interests at Yale. In class feelings, class distinctions, class rivalries, lies, we believe, the true source of our success. If we introduce the elective system, class lines, nay, we may say, the classes themselves must soon disappear. If we destroy class lines we destroy class feeling...
...Haven correspondent of the Spirit of the Times, in speaking of Yale's 'varsity crew, says the talk about the men being in bad condition and weak is all trash. The following is from his letter of last week: "All things considered, there is no good reason why these men should not be equal to, if not better, than last year. Taking it for granted that Harvard will present her strongest crew, Yale will, I think, have as reasonable a chance as she did last year. To call Yale's chances poor would be an opinion of hopes and fears...