Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very glad to see by your issue of this morning that the students take the proper view of the disturbances in the yard. No one can doubt that the faculty have contributed directly to the result. On Saturday the drums were stopped, and that aroused a hostile spirit which was sure to find vent in some way or other. Then on Monday night, the absurd remarks of an instructor, which received a greeting that on other occasions would have been disgraceful, and the puerile attempts of another, whose long experience should have taught him better, to send...
...chief delight of the students was in outwitting the proctors, and had those gentlemen shown a more reasonable spirit, the celebration would have done no harm and would have been over at an early hour. The fire on the grass by the library, which did so much injury, would not have been put there, except that its promoters were less likely to be caught in such a place. A bonfire is no crime, if it does no injury, and no one would attempt injury, unless detection means punishment...
...faculty should show such a spirit the men would be ready to meet them more than half-way. The spirit of petty spying and taking names of men probably having little to do with the disturbance, and then the system of wholesale summons will never help towards that better feeling between the faculty and the men, which every man wishes...
...information of the Yale News, we would say that our recent editorial on Mr. Camp was based on an article published in the last Spirit of the Times, from the pen of the Yale correspondent...
...alumni on the important questions that are to be handled by those overseers, and we think that the question of voluntary prayers is an important one. The state of affairs at present is in direct opposition to the tendencies of the time, and especially contrary to the spirit that regulates Harvard, and should be done away with. Any man who has not given this important question thought is not a fit man for overseer, and should decline to be a candidate. We do not doubt the good intentions of these undecided gentlemen, but demand that our overseers should be chosen...