Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...imperative reasons for the existence of these societies are half unanswered, half ignored. Our college societies supply an undoubted social want in student life. In this - in principle - they are perfectly justifiable and commendable. Many criticisms, however, are just. Much in college society life, in respect to tendency and spirit, could well be reformed. But the abolition of the social unions of students in clubs is not the way to accomplish this result - and this abolition is the legitimate outcome of Mr. Aiken's arguments. The book, however, is well worth reading by all college men. The author will certainly...
...authorities in prohibiting college nines from playing with professional teams cannot be too strongly commended. No college man can possibly derive any satisfaction from seeing his nine in contest with the professional "knights of the diamond." The whole tendency of the practice is degrading and entirely contrary to the spirit and purpose of college athletics. - [Brunonian...
...13th says: "We had hoped, in this number, to say something definite concerning the movement among the colleges, restricting the excesses into which athletics are running. Our own faculty have, as yet, the matter under consideration, and have not therefore announced their policy. We feel confident that the spirit among the professors is decidedly favorable to athletics, and no restrictions will be made that will injure them. Whatever is done by the several colleges should be done in unison. If Harvard is forbidden to play with professional nines, it would be placing her at a disadvantage...
...have a character of their own; their humor is aptly termed "sly." The subjects chosen are always unpretending, the metres used are appropriate and handled with a pleasant facility, and the execution of nearly every piece is felicitous and successful. The book throughout is pervaded with the genuine college spirit of our day in treating of all social subjects - a mild Horatian cynicism of a modern tinge. And yet the chief praise we can give to the volume is to say that it is thoroughly readable; it is not dull as so many of the attempts of college writers...
...secretaries of previous graduating classes in getting men to present themselves for the purpose of arranging a time for the sittings for the senior class photographs. All this trouble and confusion in the past has been due to the fact that the men have acted in that very characteristic spirit of "putting off until tomorrow" what they could do equally well today. If in the present case the seniors will make an exception to the general rule, and will take some little pains to see Mr. Moffat at the time he has set apart for arranging for the sittings...