Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...public sentiment in the matter of college hazings, "rushes" and other misdeeds. It is, perhaps, naturally expected that the college student, with his superior training and advantages, will behave with more decorum, and exhibit more "respectability," than other members of the community, due allowance being made for the proper spirit and eagerness of youth. But it is just as easy for a college student or a college graduate to understand the spirit that prompts these acts as it is difficult for the outsider to do so. The college student is usually so much of a radical intellectually that the natural...
...said that the greater proportion of their criticisms on local matters have for their sole object to secure reform and to raise the status of Alma Mater? Yet their aims are, more often than not, misconceived everywhere outside of the student world. That they foster a closer college spirit and a wider university spirit there can be no doubt, and that their practical usefulness might be largely increased, if college governors and instructors would permit a franker and closer relationship to be established, is more than probable...
...spirit of association in clubs and societies is carried to great lengths these days. Among the curious organizations of London are the Additional Curates' Society, the Epidemiological Society, the Mendicity Society and the Royal Female Naval School. Perhaps the suggestion in this last name for providing useful employment for the royal princesses might be well utilized. The artists have a club called the Mauls, and the lawyers are called the Devil's Own. A contemporary expresses the wish that the devil may get his own at the earliest convenient opportunity...
...game of foot-ball has been wisely approved by the almost unanimous verdict of English public-school men, masters, boys and 'old boys,' as the best of disciplinary sports and pastimes with a view to the improvement of the mind - that is to say, the will and spirit, which does not grow strong by book-learning - as much as to that of bodily strength and vigor...
...these lectures on their own knowledge and thoughts. For the present, at least, these lectures form an interesting relief from the irksome grind of formal courses. As the Chronicle says on this subject, "New lines of thought are followed; old ones are made more attractive, and a new spirit is imparted both to scholar and professor." A new subject will be treated this year by Mr. G. S. Hall, who will lecture on "Pedagogy." The only other college course of any importance on this subject is that of Prof. Payne at Ann Arbor; and he has been very successful...