Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...beginning of the last week of the Eleven's preparation for the Princeton game, we wish to assure it of the University's admiration for the good spirit it is showing in the face of a great many serious accidents to the members of the team, and appreciation of the earnest untiring work which both coaches and men are doing to gain success. It is this combination of pluck, energy and willingness to work that will bring success to the team...
...have always been very successful in uniting the various separated groups and individuals in the class in an informal meeting, which has done a great deal to make the members of the class acquainted with each other, to acquaint the class with itself, and to rouse an enthusiastic class spirit. A Freshman or Sophomore dinner should be no less successful...
...this creation of a class spirit that the greatest good of the annual dinners would lie. The feeling of a common interest, and of a common loyalty and brotherhood, which they would bring about, would make college life fuller, more interesting and more beneficial for the individuals of the class, and would make the class as a body stronger and more successful...
...means maintain the Harvard spirit of dignity and conservatism,- it affords the best of training,- but do not overdo it; let the thoughtless be more thoughful of others, and the over-sensitive less so. As to clubs, my experience has shown me that there are just as refined, manly men outside of clubs as in them, and in one club as another; such organizations could use their influence as well to establish and maintain an esprit du corps of all the students as to gain advatage exclusively for themselves...
...really seems as if in our desire to leave the schoolboy far behind, and to realize as quickly as possible the "Harvard spirit of dignity and conservatism," we have been led into an extreme and false idea of our part as men; as if in straining to show ourselves men of the world we had arrived at a standard of false formality and "priggishness" which the world will not tolerate when it receives us after graduation. "By all means maintain the Harvard spirit of dignity and conservatism, but do not over...