Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...curriculum was divided into four sessions, and at the conclusion of the fourth the students were made magistri or masters of arts. The prescribed course differed from the mediaeval degree system in three important respects : 1. In making Greek an indispensable part of university study ; 2, in the spirit of humanism which it exhibited ; 3, in its modernizing tendency. Instruction began in the winter...
This plan was adopted in the hope that many who were not "wedded to the total abstinence doctrine" might be led by a spirit of student patriotism to give up even the most moderate drinking during their college course. Had this hope been realized, and enough students joined the league to make it popular, and to make a refusal to drink less odd than an invitation, great good would have accrued to our college. There can be no doubt that it would be a great gain to the students as a body to give up entirely during the college course...
...pick an excellent team of four, six. or even eight men. We would suggest that the club should write to the various colleges, and, if possible, make arrangements for some team matches. Meanwhile, if some recognized authority, like the National Rifle Association, or the Forest and Stream, or Spirit of the Times, would lend its assistance to help on the project, we think that the sport might be put on a firmer basis...
Having reached this step the study of altruism is outside the field of the naturalist. The lecture believed that the spirit of Christianity rests on these old altruistic motives; and that it also fosters them, towards fellow beings, and towards the Supreme Being...
...persons interested in the University will give it due consideration. If properly considered, the question will be settled mainly by the college graduates and students of the Country, and Harvard should come in for her share.-There remain, however, many other serious objections to the form and spirit of the French Academy which ought to be discussed before we accept it as our model...