Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Resolved, That we brand this deed as alien in its spirit to the true standard of Yale life, and arraign its doers before the bar of public sentiment as guilty of defaming the good name of Yale...
...urging all active members of the Harvard undergraduate papers to sign immediately for the Press dinner, to be held tomorrow night. This is the first time that all the Harvard papers have been united at such an event, and as the main object is to establish a manly spirit of co-operation and friendliness between the various papers it is hoped that all who can possibly attend the dinner will be present. Some organization of the papers will perhaps result from this dinner, and a happy precedent will undoubtedly be established. Tonight the blue book for signatures will be taken...
...capital by carping at another is past. At Harvard, the papers have learned to rely upon themselves and confine their comments upon their contemporaries to friendly and usually straightforward criticisms. The proposed dinner is a rational outcome of the tendency towards co-operation, and of the decroase in the spirit of rivalry. We are sure it will call forth great enthusiasm and much good feeling and hope the plan will be successfully carried...
...Harvard spirit is not demonstrative, so the religious side of the life here is not pushed into the prominence which it attains in some colleges, but the testimony of those who come into closest touch with the students will bear us out in what we have said. No man understands the tendencies of Harvard life better than Phillips Brooks, and he has said that Harvard is the most religious of American colleges...
...character of our life, and there is an underlying conviction that there is something which will unify the fragments and make our lives complete. With this question comes a dawning consciousness that it is faith in Christ which will accomplish this. In his answer the man displays that receptive spirit which is essential in the Christian, for the Christian is inclusive, not exclusive. The personal element in Christ's relationship to each of us was the lesson drawn from his reply, "Thou hast seen Him and it is He that talketh with thee...