Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...biggest result of the agreement, and the real reason why it was made will be the preservation of the unity of the Freshman class. The men in the new dormitories are not to be divided or estranged or robbed of class spirit by that mysterious social emetic called "hush dope...
...Freshman hockey team defeated the St. Paul's School seven by the score of 5 to 2 at Concord on Saturday. The 1918 team clearly outplayed their opponents and showed much better team-work than in any previous game during the season. From the beginning the Freshman team showed spirit and also followed back well when their opponents had the puck...
Dean Briggs' annual report on athletics is something more than a mere report. It is always constructive, picking out evils and suggesting ways to eradicate them; its arguments are always for higher ideals, and cleaner spirit...
...little inclined to be a hasty sportsman rather than a sport-loving sportsman,--to win first and consider the means afterwards. It is not any warp in his moral nature which makes him so, but rather a somewhat thoughtless impetuosity bred of what is known as "college spirit." A few call Dean Briggs an idealist, and mean it as a criticism, never considering that a little idealism is what college athletics need above all else. Dean Briggs is an idealist, and as such his attitude toward sport in general acts as a corrective of undergraduate impetuosity. As Dean...
Yale has done a little in this line among the high schools of Connection but with no such success and probably without the same thoroughness. The Connection schools do not compare in athletic strength or, spirit with the Massachusetts schools around Boston. A part of the revival of the Yale spirit which is at hand, may well take the form of cultivating the sources of supply from which good athletic material is drawn.--Waterbury American...