Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Club is designed to furnish the facilities of a city club to a large proportion of students and help to satisfy the social instincts of the vast number of men who are of necessity excluded from the smaller clubs, and it is moreover hoped that it will strengthen college spirit...
Reports from Yale and Princeton show that interest in debating has reached a point far above anything before known in the history of either university. This interest has been steadily growing since the beginning of the college year, and there seems to be a spirit of determination to win the debates with Harvard at whatever cost. At Yale the alumni have taken up the subject and offered new inducements to men to go in for debating...
...large navy magnifies the chances of war.- (1) Country has to be more sensitive to so-called "insults against national honor": Nation LXII, 47.- (x) Efficiency of armaments depends on belief that war is imminent: Nation LIV, 44; LVI, 360. (2) Increase of foreign complications and growth of war spirit in the United States has been commensurate with recent growth of navy: Nation LVI. 44.- (x) Those in authority have unnecessarily seized opportunities of getting the nation into trouble.- (I) Barrundia affair-(II) Chilian affair.- (III) Hawilan affair-(IV) Venezuela question.- (y) Those in navy impatient for war: Nation...
...Coyle, formerly of North Adams and later of Denver, left a volume of Lectures which he had given in Iowa College on "The Spirit in Literature and Life." This will soon be published by Houghton Mifflin...
...that it can be played only in an extremely limited and, at that, unreliable season and at a time of the year when athletic diversions are at a discount in the University. In the face of this disadvantage, the newly formed Harvard team has gone to work with good spirit and though beaten in the first contest with Brown, has kept hard at work and now hopes to be able to make a better if not a victorious showing against its more experienced and better organized rival. The game yesterday was certainly encouraging. The team deserves credit for its good...