Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...given to an awe-stricken public. Since then there has been no marked cropping out of this inspiration until now, when again we read of the "heavenly color" which appeared to the coaches. But this is not so noticeable; it is simply silly. What does exhibit the real Yale spirit in foot-ball is the tone of both reports, though particularly of the account of the freshman game. This gives in the most partial way an account of the game. In it there are several insinuations that Yale really made touchdowns which the referee would not allow. The crowning point...
...upon that your kinsman not brooking those speeches, turns back, and pulls one his hat and tells him, seeings he used him soe, he would not yet out, upon that the Deane strikes him with his fist in the face. He beeing a man and of a spirit could not forbeare, but repaies the Deane with interest; for this he was convened before the Master and fellows, and a severe Censure passed...
...most remarkable how the very spirit of university life has changed in the last two centuries in every way Two centuries ago does not appear to one somehow as being such a great length of time as the changes they have brought about in college life would indicate. And yet with all their oddities we can not refuse "our admiration for the simple tastes and inexpensive habits of our forefathers as we find them recorded in those pages...
...with each other in the amount of space devoted to them in almost all of our exchanges. The Princetonian devotes most of its energies to foot-ball, with an occasional remark on our distinguished literary visitor, while some of our other exchanges reverse matters and show a literary spirit to predominate over the physical. [Brunonian...
...professionals. Perhaps too much time is spent on base-ball, but it might be spent worse, and we can assure the faculty that unless we have a good nine in the future the game rather than increasing in popularity will diminish and will not be played with a "manly spirit." In regard to doing the best a man can with his powers, we remember a saying of Fox's, the orator, who was a most pains-taking man. Hearing that some one was greatly surprised at the capital way he played tennis when quite an old man, he laughed...