Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...forefathers. If the feelings and sentiments which prompted it had been allowed to increase much harm would have come to our colleges, as we can hardly conceive of the extent to which these social distinctions might have been carried, with their attending discomforts, unless interrupted and destroyed by that spirit of freedom and equality which was the primary cause of the Revolution...
...impetus to systematic physical training we regard not as the least of these. Indeed it would not be wrong to consider this their foremost object, if sometimes an object not fully avowed. This element in athletics the Advertiser entirely leaves out of account. "But the growth of the professional spirit has gone," it says, "so far that the idea of playing any game except for the purpose of beating, seems to an undergraduate simply absurd." This statement is both true and not true. It is true that the undergraduate enters into a game generally with the thought prominent...
...names of the following gentlemen were omitted from the list of Harvard men interested in journalism recently given in our columns: Howard Agnew, '81, of the New York Graphic, J. M. Gibbons, '81, Boston and Harvard correspondent of the New York Spirit of the Times, J. C. Morse, '81, of the Boston Herald, who is also the Boston correspondent of the New York Clipper...
...called to any such lack of interest as has been shown by '87 in regard to its nine. The '87 football team did well, and the crew promises to do likewise. There is no reason why '87 should not have a good nine, but in the beginning the proper spirit is a very essential item. Captain Loud has proved himself an energetic captain; but he has not been backed up by his men. We were in hopes that the men who refused to sign the training paper would reconsider their action and return to work; but such has not been...
...wicked reporter of a New York daily says of the singing of the college glee club at the recent Princeton banquet in New York: "The latter organization rendered a number of college songs with great spirit, and was applauded and cheered to the echo by the happy alumni, who drank wine under the eyes of their former president with much enthusiasm...