Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...library is one of the best managed and effective departments of the university. Although, on account of the excellent management and spirit of accommodation which pervades those in charge it occasions but little comment, there are but few students in the university who do not realize the truth of the remark made by one of our professors when he said that he considered the library in working power equal to the entire faculty of the university. Our library, although not the largest, is undoubtedly the best in the country both as regards the excellent character of the books...
...force, how is it to be carried out? Will the university appoint a vigilance committee to apprehend any stray freshmen who may be found craning their necks among the crowd about the forbidden tree? or will this be the duty of the president ex officio? or will the chivalrous spirit of Harvard smother the sense of injustice in them, and keep the freshmen at a respectful distance." Fortunately there is a different idea of the fit and beautiful prevalent at Harvard than at some places where, perhaps, vigilance committees have been found a valuable and essential factor in the dispositions...
...Professor Kuno Fischer, of Heidelberg, Professor von Goltz, Professor Sigwart, and others have failed. The position is one of the most honorable and remunerative in the country, and the phenomenon is therefore some what peculiar. There are plenty of younger psychologists in Germany, but they are all modern in spirit and convictions, while Berlin is conservative, and still observes the custom, noted by Heine in his day, of keeping all new ideas in quarantine for some years or decades...
...student in such cases is as a matter of course very marked. It must be admitted, we think, that here the power of perseverance comes most into play in insuring continued success. The old story of undue precocity partly explains the phenomenon. The gradual oncoming of a certain blase spirit, resulting from the weariness of overforced mental activity, is remarkable in many cases. With some, college is the limit of mental growth; with many, but the beginning. There are many consolations for the ambitious but temporarily unsuccessful in all these facts of our daily observation, as well...
...intellectual gravity of America, we think that the care and earnestness shown by Columbia College in the advancement of one of the most useful and pleasant branches of modern study are to be heartily commended. This conduct in the light of modern views and purposes is in the right spirit. When one considers the prevailing tendency of American feelings, it will be seen that the future success of American colleges will depend to a great extent upon the success with which they combine the aesthetic and utilitarian...