Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pleasant to see that the spirit of fierce rivalry that once prevailed among many of the colleges of this country is fast dying out, and is giving way to a more just spirit of courtesy and friendly emulation. The obliteration of all differences of method is an end not at all to be desired, but the establishment of a firmer basis of agreement among all rival colleges cannot but result in good. There are one or two outcomes of the ordinary growth and experience of college faculties towards which all are tending; and one of these is the elective system...
...still, notwithstanding the substantial accord of spirit towards which all are tending, we cannot admit, as some of our Western friends would seem to wish to have us do, that the difference in degree in the comparative amount of instruction in the regular course of the larger universities, as Yale, the University of Michigan and Harvard, and in the smaller colleges of the West, is really inconsiderable. Each class works its own work, but it is mere pretence to claim that the work of both is equal. The mere statement of courses catalogued, of authors read and of subjects treated...
...growth. In another, the widening feeling among college men, and college graduates, that they have many interests in common, that there should be more of such interests than of rivalries, goes to strengthen the idea. The conventions of the Greek-letter societies have a decided influence in cultivating this spirit among many colleges; though Harvard is only included in this circle of influences, to any extent, by means of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The recent suggestion of President Eliot, that the German custom of migrations of students from one college to another, during their course, be established in this...
...editors of the Lampoon have gathered together in a volume of sketches a collection of memorials of the wit and wisdom of the editors of the first series of Harvard's great illustrated paper. The selections made afford to the student of today an admirable idea of the spirit of college humor of a few years ago, and are in effect a resume of the inner history of student life at Harvard for many years. That is the excellence of Lampy's work and the secret of his popularity. He lives among us all and knows and mercilessly satirizes...
...always a paper of sufficient merit and brightness to repay reading. The Princeton Tiger is of the same class, only "more so," and is rapidly becoming a very entertaining and valuable publication. But the journal which, in our opinion, would be found most readable, on account of its general spirit and excellence, is the Williams Argo. It certainly is the most neatly formed, the best written and the most carefully edited of any of the papers printed at other colleges. The Tiger and Spectator are on sale in Cambridge. Would it not be worth the while for its editors...