Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...resolutions voiced the sentiment of the college in regarding the faculty's action as inconsistent with their own statements in approval of the past conduct of the nine, as unwise in tending to repress college spirit, and, by the substitute offered, class games, to revive class spirit, now nearly extinct, and as unwarrantable in view of the fact that the "new system" at Amherst transfers the control of the students' disposition of time, money and energy from the faculty to the students themselves. The resolutions conclude with a request to the faculty not to persist in a course that will...
...giving us another and higher sense in which we can assume that reality answers our moral needs. Finally, since all views in these matters involve faith as an element, the last discussion will try by a comparison of two well-known kinds of faith to define what the spirit of faith ought...
...last Spirit of the Times contains a half-column communication from Yale College on the game of "American vingt...
...establish in Cambridge a true American university, when by your loving help that shall be at last created, for our children, if not for ourselves, you will have rendered a service not only to the institution we all love, but to all other institutions which, in a common spirit and with a common hope, seek to advance the honor and the glory of our beloved country...
...displays all the freshness of youth, with none of the inexperience of the novice. The "Siegfried Idyl" is of a different style from any of the Wagner selections previously given in the course. Labyrinthian in its construction, and delightfully startling in its cadences, it is instinct with the spirit of the dead master. Still it is impossible to get an adequate conception of Wagner's genius as a composer, by hearing simply a detached selection. On the whole, the concert, although hardly up to the standard of the last one, was one of the most enjoyable of the present course...