Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...times in order to develop material, as every one knows, though we believe that this should not be done at the risk of defeat. What lost the game for Harvard was the listlessness of most of the players and their failure to appreciate the necessity of playing with spirit in even an unimportant game...
...members of the University who can so, will do well to attend the class games which are to be held on Holmes Field this afternoon. The spirit in which any athletic team goes through a season's work depends very much on the interest manifested by the University at large on the occasion of such public contests as those of today. If men will turn out in good numbers to support their respective classes, their very presence will tend to heighten interest in track athletics and indirectly give encouragement to the University track team...
...unfortunate that Harvard cannot by her own efforts alone save intercollegiate football, for of the intensity of her reform spirit at present there is convincing assurance. The cooperation of other colleges will, however, be necessary; and first of all, of Yale. We do not fear for the outcome. Yale men know enough of true sport to know that football does not now come under that head...
...believe that compulsory attendance on religious exercises is prejudicial to the spirit of reverence and devotion which should prompt to particition in all religious services...
...glorious thing to lay hold of the good things in this world but they are all in vain if the spirit does not respond to the higher call and lay hold of the good things which are to last through all the everlasting ages...