Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...athletics are now carried on. Moreover there is more than the mere money transaction in this subscribing. It enables our representatives to keep the name of Harvard where it always should be in the very front of athletics. In knowledge of this, let us have a little more liberal spirit shown by every student; let each one of us do all he can to back up our teams for the faithful work they have done and which they will do in the next three months, and if Harvard shall be, as successful as we all hope it will...
...virtues? Neg. 1697. Is it lawful to sell Africans? Neg. 1724, Is it always lawful to give and take the market price? Neg. 1725. Did the heathen poets and philosophers derive their best precepts from the writings of Moses and the prophets? Aff. 1747. Do organs excite a devotional spirit in divine worship? Neg. 1730. Is capital punishment as effective in deterring men from crime, as sentence to hard labor for life? Neg. 1769. Is wealth more conducive to virtue than poverty? Aff. 1787. When Balaam's ass spoke, was there any change in its organs...
...fact that, unless fifty names are put down on the book at Bartlett's for the class dinner before tonight, the dinner will have to be given up. There are many men who are able to attend, but who fail to put down their names through a spirit of negligence or indifference. These we would urge to sign at once, as only about half the required number of names has been obtained, and every man who can go should hesitate no longer in putting down his name. Surely there are fifty men in the class who possess sufficient class feeling...
...race. But this done, Harvard feels that her conscience is satisfied and that there is no occasion for her to deviate further from the straight and narrow path marked out by the traditions of the past and the desires of the present. But with that courteousness and friendly spirit that has always characterized Harvard's dealings with her sister colleges, she at once replied to the University of Pennsylvania's somewhat bombastic challenge, that she would row the descendants of the Penns. family a race on the Charles River with an eight picked from her class crews. The University...
...such graduates with under-graduates in the work of such societies as the Historical Society and the Finance Club is productive of the best effects. It is not to be hoped that this body of resident graduates will be very large or exercise a marked influence upon the spirit of the college until the resources of the university both physical and intellectual are largely increased,-until Harvard can offer instruction in purely liberal and humanitarian studies equal to the best obtainable in Europe; until she can rival Oxford or Beriin or Paris...