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Word: spirited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of '87 men have already shown a commendable spirit in putting down their names as members of the Co-operative Society. Their example can well be imitated by the whole class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/28/1883 | See Source »

...sympathetic interest in the men who work so hard and so faithfully to gain victories for Harvard. Any man on the crew or nine will bear witness that croaking has brought the college many defeats and no victories. Men cannot be expected to play ball or row with any spirit when they have to look forward to slight praise if they win, and to unsparing and often ignorant criticism in case of defeat. We hope that the college in future will so frown upon this malicious spirit of croaking that the busy band of croakers will finally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/22/1883 | See Source »

...example, in a good library with one year's quiet reading, would not absorb an infinitely wider and truer knowledge of either history, language or literature than was included in this school curriculum for four years? It is the letter that kills in our whole present school system; the spirit is needed to make alive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEED OF AMERICAN COLLEGES. | 6/20/1883 | See Source »

Fourth - The motives for study induced by the system are, we believe, unworthy ones, and especially unworthy of students who are to go into the world as exponents of the higher education of woman. The spirit of emulation - the desire to shine, at any cost, on commencement day are not the motives which will develop the students of Vassar College into worthy daughters of their alma mater, and these are the incentives to work which the present honor system in too many cases engenders. In view, then, of these reasons, and in view of the fact that, as students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TROUBLE AT VASSAR. | 6/19/1883 | See Source »

...festive spirit which seems to be rife among certain students of late, and which relieves itself by making outrageous noises in the yard every night, ought to be repressed by them. It is to great a nuisance to be endured longer. If men do not care to study themselves, at least common courtesy ought to keep them from greatly annoying those who are compelled to work. A little reflection must show any one who has been rude enough to create a disturbance that he has done a most unjust thing, and will, we sincerely trust, lead him to cease hereafter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/16/1883 | See Source »

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