Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last Spirit of the Times discusses the recent action of the faculty in voting against having a fence around the new athletic grounds, and sharply criticizes them for their action...
...practice with professional nines. The feeling is becoming general through the college that the regulations of the faculty, however wellintended they may be, are, in their present form, injurious to our athletic interests, and at the same time not welladapted to bring about the desired absence of a "professional" spirit. The question is not one which can be settled by arbitrary rules; for no matter how strong the regulations may be made, cases will continually arise in which exceptions will have to be made to their strict enforcement. The fact is that it is impossible to draw the line unerringly...
...idea that a fence would be undemocratic as preventing some men from seeing the game who can not afford the price of admission, is laughable. We suppose the faculty consider it a much more democratic spirit which will prompt a man to look over a fence at a game of ball whose expenses are entirely paid by some one else. It seems like a scheme to compel the wealthy and generous students of the college to pay for the poor student's amusement. I am not sure that I can appreciate the democratic spirit which will permit...
...executive committee of the association shall decide all points arising under these rules, and all points not covered by these rules, and if in their judgment the spirit though not the letter of these rules has been violated in any case, they shall take what action they think...
...devoting their affluence to the service of popular beneficence. Generosity has become a public sentiment. Indeed, it is already proverbial that no rich New Englander would dare to imperil his future happiness by failing to make a bequest to Harvard. This wise benevolence, so nobly characteristic of the public spirit of this Commonwealth, will yet enrich the foundations of Harvard beyond English precedent. Ampler revenues, increasing the corps of instruction, and furnishing appliances for the illustration of every department of human knowledge, will annually extend the usefulness of the university...