Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Spirit of the Times is very much grieved over the treatment that the Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association has received at the hands of the National Amateur Athletic Association, and the Yale News takes the same text and adopts as its own the complaints which are put into its mouth by the Spirit...
...first complaint is that certain factious spirits in the convention of the Amateur Association tried to prevent the colleges from entering men at the amateur meeting by fixing the date of the meeting for the fall instead of for June; but, as this proposition was defeated, we hardly see the necessity of crying out against it now. The chief complaint, however, relates to the representation which the Inter-Collegiate Association is allowed in the conventions of the Athletic Association. "They did not, it is true, refuse the petition of the I. C. A. A. for membership in their select number...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : To an impartial observer the tennis question appears to be one that the Tennis Association might grapple with successfully. Had the 'Varsity nine last winter reserved the cage in the gymnasium for their own use entirely, so that they might practice in it whenever the spirit moved them, thus shutting every one else out and leaving the cage empty five-sixths of the day, the absurdity of the thing would have appeared to all; and it would not have seemed to be a question beyond solution. No, the 'Varsity was allowed the first choice of hours...
...would be the immediate effect of co-education to destroy this element of college life at Harvard, we do not believe; that such would be the ultimate result seems very probable. But that such a result would be altogether an unmixed evil, provided that for the narrower college spirit a broader university spirit were substituted, may perhaps be questioned...
...fact that the Princeton faculty, whose rules in regard to professional trainers are practically indentical with those in force at Harvard, has not deemed it inconsistent with the spirit of those rules to permit their Athletic Association to employ as trainer a man whom our own faculty deemed an improper person to exercise those functions at Harvard, is significant. We do not wish to indulge in captions criticism on the action of our athletic committee; but it certainly seems as though this action on the part of Princeton sustained the possibility of a doubt as to whether the action...