Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Goths and Vandals are among us! During the pointing of Gore Hall, which was recently done, the numerous class ivies, endeared to our Alumni by so many fond associations, were ruthlessly ripped from the ragged rocks round which they ran. It is the same iconoclastic spirit which transmutes the Thayer Club to an Augean stable, shuts down upon future college journalism by laying walks, and is rapidly turning our Alma Mater into a mere Sahara of brick and mortar...
With the abandonment of the usage here, a long step would be taken towards securing its abolition elsewhere; and it seems eminently proper that the College which has taken the lead in widening the range and elevating the spirit of College instruction, in recognition of the increased maturity of its students, should also be foremost n discarding and discountenancing a tradition which could have sprung up only when students were mere boys, not yet come to that sense of personal dignity which shrinks alike from inflicting and from accepting a wound to self-respect...
...hold of the custom lies mainly in that conservative instinct which makes us all slow to give up an old usage, even though a mischievous one; and doubly so when its abandonment may seem due to lack of spirit. This instinct is strongest where experience is least; and young men can hardly be expected to resolve not to do what their predecessors for generations have done, unless they receive in this course encouragement and support from the emphatic counsels and warnings of those whose opinions and advice they have learned to respect and follow...
...great event of the week, the University race, after a double postponement, came off on the morning of Saturday, July 18. The result is satisfactory to none but the gallant sons of Columbia, and, even in their case, we are confident that the gentlemanly spirit of rivalry which is characteristic of them would have prompted them to prefer a fair trial of superiority with their two most formidable rivals to the walk-away race they had of it after the Yale-Harvard foul...
...members of this Society for their annual supper occurred at the Revere House, Boston, last evening, and proved a most enjoyable finale of their very successful year. According to the pleasant custom of past years, members of the First Ten elect were present and entered heartily into the spirit of the occasion. At the close of the supper the President, Mr. Dickinson, after a few apt remarks, introduced the orator of the evening, Mr. MacArthur. At the close of the oration Mr. Olmsted, the toastmaster, was introduced, and to him a large share of the evening's pleasure...