Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last year included the following : Dailies - New York Times and Herald (with Sunday edition), the Boston Herald (with Sunday edition), Advertiser and Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Springfield Republican and New York Graphic; weeklies - Harpers', Frank Leslie's, Puck, The Nation, London Graphic, London Illustrated News, Louisville Courier-Journal, Spirit of the Times, Vicksburg Herald, Charleston News and Courier. The management proceeds on a strictly cash basis, no paper being subscribed to until it can be paid for. The reading room has been in past years deservedly one of the most popular of the college institutions. The price of membership...
...Harvard-Columbia matter prepared by W. C. Baylies, secretary of the H. U. B. C., is expected to set forth the following points: "That technically Harvard could have claimed the race on the day for which it was first appointed; that had Harvard acted in a professional spirit it would have claimed it; that when without formal notice from Columbia of her sad misfortune, Harvard voluntarily, and as a matter of courtesy, kept off the course on the hour and day first named, and two days later agreed to row Columbia after the race with Yale, it did so with...
...though admitting that manly public sentiment is the surest, if not the only means of checking intemperance among college students, we hold that it lies mainly with the faculty and officers of a college to create, or, at all events, to promote the growth of such a spirit. College students, however anxious they may be to decorate themselves with the name of men, are +++ general, too young to be expected to assume the burdens of manhood, or even thoroughly understand its duties. They are still in the plastic state. During the four years of the college course, habits are formed...
...picture of the quiet and peace of the ocean scene is a delicate piece of painting that strikes one strongly with its deep tinges of classic spirit, and makes one think of Homer. In truth, there is throughout this poem a healthiness of sentiment and grace of form that bring into only too unpleasant relief the affectation and crudity of some of the others...
...that their stroke was too jerky to enable them to preserve their form. But they have still some time before them, which, if utilized to the utmost, will go far toward enabling them to win the approaching race. They probably receive their defeat of last Saturday in the proper spirit, and so far from being discouraged, will be only urged on to renewed efforts and determination to row a winning race...