Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...communication which we publish in another column in regard to the senior class photographs, seems to have been written in a spirit of fault-finding and exaggeration, which to some extent probably accounts for the evident lack of facts contained in this communication. The work of a photographic committee is notoriously disagreeable. Complaints will always arise as it is impossible to satisfy everybody, and of course all the blame is laid upon the committee, or upon the photographer. No blame is ever for a moment placed upon the man who neglects time and time again to arrange a sitting...
...bring into closer connection those who represent the university in the world at large, and those undergraduates who are doing representative student work. Another feature of the magazine will be its book reviews. Whatever literary ability exists in Harvard to-day is distinctly critical in tone and spirit, and every effort will be made to have such reviews as may be published careful and exact, and based on sound principles of criticism...
...freshman nines, this should not be regarded in too unfavorable light. There is good material in the team, and a few days steady work will soon put the nine in a good condition for successful work. While the Yale freshman nine is exceptionally strong, and has already shown great spirit in its sharp contest with Amherst, we feel confident that the success of eighty-eight is only a question of work upon the part of each member of the nine. Though the game with the Newtons may at first have appeared slightly discouraging, it can only serve to point...
...words of advice as to how they may most profitably employ their hours of exercise during the spring, and also in the coming vacation. When the success of the lectures formerly delelivered before the students by Dr. Sargent is remembered, there can be no doubt of the spirit in which such a lecture would be received...
...first two years of a student's life at Harvard is looked forward to with greater anticipation, or back upon with greater pleasure than the sophomore dinner. It is the first social gathering of the class as a whole, and is universally regarded as the culmination of sophomoric spirit. Last Saturday evening, in accordance with the time honored custom, about 125 members of eighty-seven sat down to an excellent repast at the Quincy House. After the wants of the inner man had been satisfied, Mr. F. S. Coolidge, the president of the class, introduced as the orator...