Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...doubtless be able to find many ex-officials of lunatic asylums, state prisons, etc., who will be glad of so easy and lucrative a position. This sort of parental restriction which the Bursar has imposed upon us, in dictating whom we are to employ, is foreign to the whole spirit of the College, and is a remnant of that system of petty annoyance which young men hope to have done with when they leave boarding-school...
...dancing, and wondered why somebody had not written upon "Dancing as a Revelation of Character," or upon the "Limit of the Diaphanous in Dress." I tried the diversion of repeating my fables for French 1, but - mirabile dictu - found no amusement in that. Were examinations anything but vexation of spirit? Should we ever be able to get "the maximum of knowledge with the minimum of grind"? Happy thought! Behold a royal road to learning! Let all your friends be grinds, - grinds pure, undefiled. Their brains, you know, when crammed for an examination, are only sponges dipped in a saturated solution...
...Northampton, was next introduced, and read a strikingly original poem. Both the conception and the treatment of the poem were unique. The conception of the opening was worthy of Holmes, the changes from "grave to gay" were very gracefully made, and the speaker was successful in sustaining the poetic spirit throughout the whole...
...indeed capital; the most humorous and the most skilfully drawn that Mr. Attwood has yet done. The union in the dress of the "Little Tin Gods," of the modern full-dress costume with that of an ancient Greek swell, is a most clever adaptation of the cartoons to the spirit of the "tragedies." And in the attitudes of the "Little Tin Gods," and especially in the bored and supercilious expression in their faces, Mr. Attwood has left little wanting that might give a perfect representation of the typical society man in "Our Modern Athens." In spite of the fact that...
...what grounds the correspondent of the Spirit bases his opinion that Wilmer and La Montaigne are the only "sprinters" worthy of the prowess of H. H. Lee. Not to mention anybody else, J. Lafon, of the Mystic Boat Club, has, during the past season, shown better time than...