Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Joined to this cynicism and contempt for what the world calls good, we find the modern spirit of questioning. There is nothing so sacred but it must be doubted. His is that same scientific "spirit of negation" which "turns back the strata, concluding coldly with: 'Here's Law! Where...
...Wishard, College secretary, presided, and Mr. J. H. Colby of Dartmouth, was elected secretary of the conference. The first paper was on " Christian Fellowship in College Work," which was read by Mr. Whitman, of Brown. Mr. Wishard gave a very interesting address on the " Development of the Missionary Spirit." Both of these subjects were then discussed by the delegates...
...short service " For Consecration and Prayer for the Holy Spirit," was held in Holden Chapel, from 9 to 9.45 A. M., with a very good attendance...
...first place, nothing could be more unwise than to publish an article written in such a spirit. Memorial Hall is a student co-operative institution, and its success depends entirely on the interest and co-operation of its members, and such misleading statements as appeared yesterday are most damaging to the interests of the hall. There never was a Board of Directors who put more interest in their work than the present board, and any such remarks as your article expressed shows, at least, little respect for the great interest and sacrifice of time of the directors...
...dinner of the bar last night, is as much above the common run of dinner speakers as his father is above the common race of banquet posts. Indeed, those two speeches of the younger Holmes are nothing short of poems in prose, being conceived in the loftiest spirit and broadest view, and scarcely less perfectly chiselled and polised in form than if they were in verse." -Boston Transcript...