Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...show its real ability in the field, but in batting the Harvard players were disappointingly weak. None of the many runs were earned, and may be attributed, especially in the second inning, directly to Trinity's careless errors. From the third inning until the end Trinity played without spirit, and by using first one player and then another in the pitcher's box, and aided by the wretched batting of the University team, kept hits well scattered. Errors and bases on balls, however, added to Harvard's score...
...Amateur Spirit, by B. Perry...
After the barbaric war dance of the opening chorus, the first hit was made by W. G. Means '06, as "Bang Bang", who sustained spirited comic action in both his songs and lines, although his voice failed at times to carry. S. D. Preston '06, is "Hustler, the Wanderer", sang "New York's the Place" and "When I Started Out" with engaging ease and jauntiness of manner, and showed considerable range in "Let's Sew" and "Back, get Back", in Act II. On several occasions the orchestra was a little too loud for the voices of the principals...
Professor Wendell after reviewing the causes of the Revolution, spoke of the men who began it. An intense philanthropic and noble spirit, he said, urged them on with the demand for "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity." They wished to substitute new democratic conditions for the old autocratic traditions. They succeeded in overthrowing the old conditions, and in their place the Empire arose...
...spirit of the Empire was expressed by Napoleon when he said that he aimed at those conditions under which a career would be open to every man of ability...