Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...curiously incomprehensible mass of words, ranging from the over-studied "electioneering of exciting issues" to the vulgar "chips on both their shoulders," the writer attempts to mock that lofty spirit which has created the Harvard Sound Money Campaign Club. I am not a member of any of the political parties of this country, and circumstances have placed me beyond the reach of prejudices which might influence judgment in this question. I am but a devoted member of the University...
What the writer can mean by that phrase "with no issues at all," I cannot understand. It needs explanation, and so do many other expressions, such as "unsatisfied by the general practice of inheritance." Indeed we might require an explanation of the spirit and the sentiments expressed in the entire editorial...
Tomorrow there will be a procession and anniversary exercises with a reception to the President and Mrs. Cleveland, and a glee club concert. In connnection with the celebration clas reunions are being held and the occasion is marked by a great revival of Princeton spirit among all the graduates. Harvard's representative is President Eliot who made an address yesterday in behalf of the colleges...
...Freshman class will have one of its first opportunities to show its class spirit and its willingness to work for the interests of the University, in the meeting tonight to organize the Freshman Debating Club of 1900. For the club is one of the most important of the Freshman organizations. It offers the only training in debate that Freshmen can obtain, since neither the Forum nor the Union nor any of the debating courses are open to Freshmen...
...Resolved, That we, the members of the Bryan and Sewall Club of Yale University, do hereby declare this action untrue to the sentiments of our university and hostile to the spirit of broadmindedness that has always characterized Yale men, and that we tender Mr. Bryan our sincere apology for this action of our fellow students...