Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...education which is of overwhelming importance. The physical training which they involve, good as it may be, is but a small part of the benefit achieved. The moral training is greater. Where scores of men are working hard for athletic honor, and hundreds more are infected by their spirit, the moral force of such an emulation is not to be despised...
...following postal has been sent out by the secretary of the Brown University Club of Boston. It speaks well for the Brown Spirit...
...constitution used by last year's club was adopted in whole, and a set of by-laws was adopted, similar to those of last year. The subject for debate was: Resolved, that more class spirit would be beneficial to the best interests of Harvard College." The principal disputants were: affirmative-G. A. Goodridge and J. H. Coopley; negative-H. W. Adams and F. C. Sutro. The debate was decided in favor of the negative. A number of men then spoke from the floor. The speakers as a rule, showed considerable ease and fluency, and the prospects for good debating seem...
...letter saying that he resented any interference by Harvard graduates, and that any arrangement for a game thus made would not be ratified. There the negotiations stopped. It is fair to say that the Harvard alumni interested in athletics have acted in a thoroughly handsome and conciliatory spirit and that, so far as they are concerned, there was no reason why a game should not have been arranged...
...Harvard Athletic Committee with regard to negotiations between the two universities has been published, and Yale is justified no longer in treating these negotiations as confidential. Throughout the winter and spring the newspapers were filled with charges against the Yale players and against its team and against the Yale spirit in general. From first to last no explanation or disclaimer of these charges came from any Harvard source...