Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Spirit of the Times severely censures the mismanagement by which the tug-of-war teams from Yale and Columbia were allowed to pull against teams already wearied by previous pulls, while they were fresh from their...
...comments on the tremendous cheering farce at the Dart mouth game: "The Yale men among the audience now began to assemble on the west side of the grounds, realizing that there was just a bare possibility of winning and that good hearty cheers were needed to give our nine spirit and confidence for the hard up-hill game before them. Up to this point the small Dartmouth contingent had struggled nobly with their complicated cheer, and the Yale rash were wholly inadequate to silence it. But after the sophomores met them squarely on their own grounds shouting with great spirit...
...their singular fitness for life in what they regard as the more civilized portion of the country. There are some who are roused by the ambition of a Marlborough-to amass a great fortune. Others are sure they are born to stir the world. Others, still, have the spirit of a Swift, who only labored to distinguish himself that he might be used "like a lord," and that the "reputation of great learning might do the work of a blue ribbon and a coach-and-six." Numbers, too, like Charles Lamb, are carried away with the idea that a life...
...view of the demands of the modern spirit upon our colleges, so well expressed by President Eliot in this article, it is pleasant to reflect that Harvard falls short of the requirements of the new ideal perhaps as little as any college in America, with possibly one exception, and that in the department of historical study so notably patronized by President Eliot, her position is that of a leader. Already the fame of the college in attracting the more serious students of the higher branches has been largely increased by the widespread reputation of its history department. With eighteen regular...
...ceremony, and that it was belittling to the class to get up a circus and play the role of clowns for the benefit of outsiders." With the increase in the average age of the freshman, and the continual raising of the standard of admission, accompanied by a more manly spirit, we may soon hope to look upon cremations and other childish exhibitions of forced celebrations as a thing of the past...