Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class games on Thursday last we were sorry to see the evidently bad manner in which the meeting was managed. The events were not started in the published order and a spirit of slackness and irresponsibility prevailed. It is needless to say that the meeting this afternoon must not be managed in this way. We expect those in charge of the games to do everything in their power to make them go off well and promptly...
...will probably be very great, they will be felt chiefly through their influence upon education. The French Revolution will henceforth be held up to the schools and colleges of France, just as the American Revolution is in the United States. Hence succeeding generations will grow up filled with the spirit of republicanism, and the benefits of the great Revolution will be secured for future years...
...responsible ministry would revolutionize our present form of government, and would be foreign to the spirit of our constitution:- Hare's American Constitutional Law, vol. 1, pp. 175-180; Overland Monthly, vol. 9, pp. 209, 210; Freeman's Presidnntial Government...
...Yale News complains of the spirit of independence and indifference shown by members of the freshman nine...
...impossible to enter here into a synopsis of the play. Suffice it to say the tragedy retains for an American audience an astonishing interest, and bring vividly before us the fact that in many ways little more than a long term of years separates us from the feeling and spirit of the Grecian time. Save during one or two chorus scenes the listener almost continually found himself so absorbed as to be utterly unconscious that he was listening to a production of more than twenty centuries...