Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...itself a work of art in that line, was made most ludicrous by the gigantic proportions assumed by his body in ballet costume. The low stage, and the level floor of the hall, however, prevented many from seeing the expert dancing. The audience from the very beginning caught the spirit of the performance, and looked upon it, as the actors themselves did, as a mirthful episode in student life...
...this is Harvard teaching as to the bases of conduct and faith,' it means that modern scepticism, the pseudo-science of agnostic doubt, is in the ascendant, and that Harvard has the greatest problem of her history to solve, how to reconcile in a large and real sense the spirit of true science and the spirit of real religion...
Faculty and students are inevitably drawn closer together, and a free interchange of views is encouraged, which does much towards removing misunderstandings and producing that spirit of harmony and confidence so necessary for the highest degree of success...
...conservative and any undue precipitancy was thereby avoided. Improvement, however, had been made slowly but surely. Harvard was encouraging the students to do things for themselves, and as a result they had already organized and successfully managed Memorial Hall and the Co-operative. He also asserted that a good spirit of scholarship could not exist except as the results of free will and intellectual ambitions. The best discipline, he stated, was that of responsibility. The university is to train men, in whom personal independence of thought is of primary importance. In no field does college education tell more than...
...these days of varied amusements, and inter-collegiate sports, we can hardly appreciate the zest and spirit with which our predecessors entered into an affair of this kind, certainly setting us an example which could be followed with great profit...