Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that this year there has been none of the pernicious caucusing and bargaining which has been so prevalent on the eve of former elections, and which has more than once engendered bitterness and hard feeling which has lasted until and even beyond class day. We hope that this same spirit of fairness will continue through the meeting tonight...
Whatever rules are adopted and whatever men are named to fill the offices, let us hope for the prevalence of the spirit of good feeling and fairness toward all throughout the evening, so that '83's class day shall be a model one, free from bitterness and jealousy, and one which every member of the class can look forward to with pleasant anticipations...
ITHACA, Nov. 13, 1882. The spirit of progress is still the vital principle at Cornell. Animated by this spirit, which has pushed our youthful university into the front rank of American colleges and forced them to needed reforms, and fearing that it was growing dormant in the breasts of the authorities, certain public-spirited individuals recently demolished a wooden bridge leading to the campus. This action was expected to bring forcibly before the proper persons the fact that the bridge was not in keeping with the other property of the university. Like many radical reforms, this did not meet with...
...take some steps towards abating what we may call the "mucker" nuisance on Holmes field. The presence of these little gamins of the street, at all times and upon all occasions, is becoming decidedly disagreeable. The noise and confusion that they always create, in addition to a growing spirit of lawlessness and rowdyism on their part, furnishes sufficient reason for excluding them entirely from the college grounds. Next spring, perhaps, when we have an enclosed field for athletics, this nuisance will be done away with, but for the present some measures should be taken to prevent its continuance...
...only recommend changes of any such nature to the corporation. Next Monday evening, therefore, this petition will be considered. It will either be laid on the table or referred to the corporation with or without recommendation. The Crimson is progressive, we know, and we admire its progressive spirit, but, as in the present instance, let not its head in its progression get so far ahead of its feet that the feet stumble over the facts which lie plainly on the ground before them...