Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculty that there are not enough inter-class contests. Here is an excellent opportunity to start a competition which shall bring out the representatives of the different classes, at the same time affording an opportunity for healthy sport in the field and tending to revive the class spirit which is said to have died out of late years. This suggestion of ours may be impracticable, but we should like to see it acted upon, especially since we feel sure that '84 could put four men into the field capable of winning one more victory for the class before it leaves...
...business to run, and excelled in it; a mule, who could kick, but whose running powers were small. The colt engaged the horse to instruct him in running, and was making good progress, when the mule stepped in, and, declaring that the horse was introducing a tricky and dangerous spirit, discharged him. "I, myself," said he, "will assume charge of the colt's education in running, as well as the other things," But the mule was lame, Moral: Was not the mule kind? The professional element in athletics must be removed. [Princetonian...
...interest which has been shown by the undergraduates in the lectures on the Civil War given each week shows that the military spirit has not entirely died out in this college. Why would not a course on military science be of interest as well as instructive to the students? Most of the men who enter Harvard are totally ignorant of everything military except what they may have learned accidentally from the perusal of histories. This is a country averse to large standing armies. Consequently corps of well educated officers and military schools where men are instructed to become officers...
...rapidly in experience and skill, but would do so with less risk of over training and its dangerous results. Indeed, looking at the question from a sanitary point of view, it seems difficult to imagine any more dangerous practice, than to intrust numbers of young men animated by a spirit of strong rivalry, with the preparation for athletic contests, without the constant supervision of regular training masters, all of whose work could not possibly be performed by any director of physical culture, however able and energetic...
...conclusion, we may state that although adverse to minute or rigid restrictions upon college sports, we fully appreciate the necessity of excluding therefrom all spirit of professionalism, and would willingly see the University of Pennsylvania enter into any reasonable agreement in the matter which the colleges of the Eastern and Middle States might think advisable...