Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...still urged to continue the agitation of the plank walk question, but, up to date, we have not received a single complaint about the piano fiend. Can it be that the musical men have loafed more than usual this season? Or are we to believe that a spirit of forbearance has crept in among them? We are led to hope that the latter solution of the problem is the true...
...barbarous custom of stamping in the dining-hall, on the appearance of a visitor in the gallery with his hat on, will, we trust, never be renewed. It has become a thing of the past. Still, although the students have shown a more courteous spirit, nevertheless the discourtesy of wearing a hat in the hall is just as great as it ever was, and of course the discourtesy is greater if the offender be a student than if he be a stranger. It is with great surprise, then, that we learn that some of the students, boarding at the hall...
...noted in the table of contents of the January New Englander an article on "Gentlemanliness in College Athletics," by Mr. A. L. Ripley of Yale. When we came to read the article our pleasure was even more extreme. Mr. Ripley declares that our college sports are characterized by a spirit that is unbecoming among gentlemen, and that the remedy must be obtained by the students themselves raising their low ethical standard. There is nothing particularly new in either of Mr. Ripley's assertions, but, in view of the quarter whence they come, considerable importance should be attached to them. Hitherto...
...down to the gymnasium and see Blake put up the dumb-bell, and to listen to his discourses upon matters of muscular interest. Somehow or other he always seemed to know more about these things than any of us; and he was inspired by a strenuous missionary spirit, persuasive enough almost to make an oarsman out of a humpback, or a sprint-runner out of a cripple...
...spirit of Harvard is essentially a spirit of nonchalance. They who regard us with an eye that is rather critical than kind, call this disposition to restfulness, Harvard indifference. But the reproach of indifference can no longer be justly made against us. The age of change is at hand. We have a Chess club. Not long ago the members of '88 who are interested in chess, initialed into life what they imagined would be known as the Chess Club of '88. But the University grasped the idea and spread over the new born child the mantle of the 'Varsity...