Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cooperative Society. The list of papers and periodicals there to be found is as follows: Boston Advertiser, Herald, Globe, Transcript, Traveller, Saturday Evening Gazette; New York Herald, Tribune, Times, Post, Truth; Springfield Republican; London Punch, Graphic, Illustrated News and Weekly Times; The Graphic, Life, Clipper, Turf, Field and Farm, Spirit of the Times; The Modern Age, Progress, Puck; New Haven Union; Good Literature. This list will soon be enlarged. The Reading Room is indebted to the HERALD-CRIMSON for several of the above papers. All the college exchanges, by courtesy of the Advocate, will soon be put in the room...
...believe that there is another college in the land where it would be necessary to make such appeals in order to secure the clubs a good support. The fact that each year it seems to be necessary to urge the students to show at least a fairly patriotic spirit towards them does not redound at all to our credit. In a university of the standing of Harvard, a large attendance at these concerts ought to be given as a matter of course,-if merely on account of the musical excellence that is always shown at them. We trust that this...
...think of it, does it not seem a burning shame that fellows who come from the most refined class of people in the country must needs have rules, warnings, etc., before they can play a manly and honorable game ? But experience has shown the futility of relying on this spirit of manliness which is supposed to characterize the American youth. In a team selected purely for physical merit, there are sure to be one or two men who are insensible to the finer instincts which govern a gentleman's conduct. And the example set by them is only...
...spite of the simplicity with which the various branches of science and art may now be taught, they are not likely to make much advancement among the Mohammedans. These people display an astonishing apathy and a total absence of the spirit of inquiry and research. They confide the secrets of nature to the supreme care of Allah, and consider it entirely uncalled for to trouble themselves about such matters beyond the extent required for their common wants...
...this, we want eighty-seven to better the record of eighty-six and to turn out a nine that will score two victories over Yale. We are far from believing this impossible, and even consider the chances good provided only work is begun in time and in the right spirit. The material at hand in the class is undoubtedly as good as the average, if not better, and with proper coaching and plenty of enthusiasm, a good nine should be turned out in the spring. It is a disgrace that so many classes in succession have succumbed to their Yale...