Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...editorial in the current Spirit of the Times on the "Eternal Yale-Harvard Quarrel," however well intended, is certainly ill-advised. The very objection it urges against the journals of the two universities must be urged with double force against the Spirit itself. If its editor fears that the college journals will injure the colleges they represent by giving too much prominence to this so-called "eternal quarrel," how much more injury will these institutions receive from an editorial making such grave charges as does the one in the Spirit. The college journals are read for the main part...
...that not only Harvard but Princeton disapproved of Yale's method of play. Still, neither Harvard nor Princeton ever accused Yale of being a mere training-school for "muckers." We only claim that Yale plays a game of foot-ball which we consider adapted only to "muckers" (if the Spirit wants to use this word), and in so far only as Yale supports this style is she "muckerish." Still, at Rugby, England, an equally rough game is in vogue, yet no one characterizes Rugby men as muckers. That this style of game meets with the disapproval of the college world...
...fresh aquatic brawl" of which the Spirit speaks is hardly worthy of mention. We do not think that any Yale paper (with the notable exception of the News) charges Harvard men with being "sneaks and scoundrels" in their action concerning the arrangements for next year's race. Harvard is simply helpless in this matter on account of the new arrangements of this year. The article in the News, we trust, was actuated by an unauthorized and ill-considered article in the Boston Herald, which does not in any way represent Harvard's sentiments. The News itself withdraws to some extent...
...whole trouble arises from the fact that the Spirit of the Times has made a "mountain of a mole-hill" in assuming that a few remarks let fall by individual students represent the sentiment of the entire body of students of Harvard and Yale...
...work done by '86 on the foot-ball field this fall every one interested in college athletics will watch with much concern the manner in which they will begin to prepare themselves for the base-ball contests next spring. Their gymnasium work will begin shortly after Christmas, and the spirit they will show in this preliminary practice is likely to have the greatest effect on their next season's games. It is hoped that the number of candidates will be large and their practice faithful, so that they may go on to the field in the spring thoroughly organized...