Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which we have a decided advantage over the students of many European colleges. But recently we heard of the arrest of many Russian students for implication in Nihilis plots. This, however, is no new occurrence. For years the universities and higher colleges of Russia have been infected with spirit of disloyalty towards the government, which has often been the cause of collisions with the local authorities and in some cases in exile to Siberia...
...entire discussion of the Greek question has been made on so-called practical grounds. Our professors and our magazine-writers have confined themselves in their debates on the subject to what a speaker in the Harvard Union so aptly called the "bread-and-butter" view. "We must consult the spirit of the times in which we live. That spirit tends entirely towards progress, towards the substitution of new and more practical ideas for those which have governed the world for centuries past. We must keep abreast of the modern movement and more especially consult the needs of the time...
...recent number of the Spirit of the Times contrasts the present attitude of students and of college faculties in regard to the present reform in athletics, again emphasizing in accordance with President Eliot's views the irreconcilable antithesis between the new system and the old. In the belief that this article represents with substantial accuracy the position of the authorities of Harvard College in the matter, and as such deserves the widest circulation, we present it in full below. We still hold that the antithesis spoken of is unduly emphasized and need not necessarily exist, in spite of the Spirit...
...training within reasonable bounds as to expenditure, either of time or money; to totally abandon the employment of professional trainers or assistants; to avoid undue notoriety and its attendant unhealthy excitement; to forswear all gate-money speculation-in short, to conduct these contests strictly in accordance with the true spirit of genuine amateur sport...
...Spirit of the Times has a certain Hibernian touch to it of "see a head and hit it," which is truly unique, and its bump of aggressiveness has once more led it into a ridiculous position. After administering a sound drubbing, a very sound drubbing indeed, to the University of Pennsylvania, on account of its unfortunate challenge, the writer of the article was seemingly unable to close without making a few flings at Harvard and Yale. He blandly states: "If all the bosh that has been written about the aquatic deeds and words of Harvard and Yale could be collected...