Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Anent the Harvard Annex the Brunonian says: "What effect the advent of five or six hundred studiously-in-clined young women would have upon the spirit of our venerable sister college, we can scarcely predict. The question may soon be solved, however; for, unless the signs of the times are most deceptive, the university will, in the near future, be opened, even the Veterinary Department, to the fair sex, and the ancient halls may, ere long, resound throughout to the tread of lighter feet...
What the cause of this conduct on the part of Boston papers is can only be conjectured. It is well known that most of the reporters of college affairs are college graduates. The opinion has been advanced that the spirit shown in these accounts of games is simply a manifestation of the old complaint, Harvard indifference - this time a sort of postgraduate indifference...
...Cambridge with the team, will be remembered by them most pleasantly. The action of the Harvard students who so energetically labored, amid slush and snow, for nearly two days, to prepare the ground for the game, is worthy of thanks from Princeton. No game was ever played with more spirit and pluck, and, at the same time, no game was ever freer from bad feeling. [Princetonian...
...method was as follows: He called one of the students by name and asked him what had been done at the recitation on the previous day. The student immediately rose and gave an interesting synopsis of the preceding lesson, and connected it with the present lesson, with the same spirit that he might have displayed if he were making a short address to some philosophic convention. Another student was called and told to take the next topic. He proceeded in the addressive style, as had his classmate, and so others were called until all the appointed task had been recited...
...year, I should like to advocate a measure which I am sure will meet with the approbation of most of the fair-minded men of the college, and which deserves the attention of every person who believes in keeping the college sports free from all manifestation of the "mucker" spirit. I refer to the advisability of giving up our annual Yale game of foot-ball. I believe that after the exhibition given us by Yale last Saturday, that every Harvard man who wishes to keep up the tone of college athletics, will approve of any action taken by the eleven...