Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale Lit., that vituperation and scurrility would better become a journal of less dignity and fewer pretensions than itself. If the Lit. must wail, we presume it is all very proper that it should wail with perfect impunity; but we entreat our dear sister to show a more chivalric spirit, and not to vent its spite upon the weak and unprotected alone...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Thursday evening the last of the Harvard Union debates drew its usual small audience. In comparison with the enthusiasm evinced in smaller colleges, Harvard shows a most remarkable indifference in regard to debating societies. May be that the oratorical spirit of our age is declining, but we suspect that the belief is gaining ground that extempore speaking can be acquired without much training. It should be remembered that seven years' practice in New England school-houses gave skill to Wendell Phillips, and one of the finest characteristics of Burke's writing comes from life-long habit...
...what we all, both those on the crew and the classes in general, sincerely hope it were, still he seems to have rashly jumped at the cause of the crew's not meeting his ideal. He appears to have attributed it entirely to, as he says, "a spirit of indifference as to the welfare and success of the crew which has pervaded its members," and especially to a lack in the captain of certain necessary and estimable qualities, which we think he possesses. Had he observed more closely he would have found that efforts have been and are being made...
...freshman race with Columbia is eagerly watched by all those interested in freshman athletics, and inasmuch as this race is considered in nearly the same light by the university in general as the Yale-Harvard 'Varsity race. We have noticed lately, we are sorry to say, that a spirit of indifference as to the welfare and success of the crew has pervaded its members. They have certainly displayed much laxness lately in their practice rows - even failing to get out on the river last Saturday, through absence of one of the members. This laxness seems to signify a perfect willingness...
...correspondent of the Spirit says that "The new American College Association football rules are conducive to more talk and claims of foul than the old Rugby Union rules, and this is an unpleasant feature...