Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...separate bowl of punch of its own in the rooms facing on the college yard, and the year of the class has been conspicuously placarded on the outer wall, in order that the graduates might know where their classmates rallied. These little gatherings have always been marked by a spirit of lively cordiality, which might be expected of college classmates coming together after years of separation to renew their friendships and recall the scenes and associations of their youth. There was no rowdyism or gross misconduct at these gatherings, and the effect of the punch has rarely been made manifest...
...second place over Harvard in the fall of '81, although each team had won but one game. We think that the Princetonian, upon considering the matter impartially, will see that the championship still rightfully belongs to Harvard and will acknowledge the fact, in Princeton's customary fair and disinterested spirit...
...evening listening to the cheerful and familiar sound of whistling, singing, cheering, shouting, explosion of torpedoes and snapping of crackers, than that we should wear ourselves out by a long grind in the evening after the labors of the day. Those who accept these little favors in the kindly spirit in which they are offered will indeed be greatly benefited thereby, but, unfortunately, there are a few misguided individuals who turn a deaf ear to these pleasing distractions and take no relaxation from their grind. Such students cannot claim our sympathy - a man so devoted to work...
...Yale, ran a quarter-mile in 50.2-5 seconds; but this was on a half-mile trotting-track, measured 3 feet from the pole, and performances made there cannot be accepted as genuine records, in comparison with times made on paths measured in accordance with amateur athletic law. [Spirit...
...have perhaps reason to be thankful for the kindly interest taken in college athletics by the organs of professional athletes, such as the Clipper and Spirit of the Times. When any of these papers concede a slight amount of praise to the performances of college athletes do not our bosoms swell with grateful pride? On such occasions as the recent inter-collegiate meeting in New York, therefore, it should be our first effort to act so as to gain the approbation of the omniscient scribes who report for these journals. It is with feelings of the deepest delight that...