Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...degenerate into braggadocio, as in the recent matter of the football championship. Of the Record and the Courant, the former is the more gentlemanly; but the News is after all our favorite, - a model which other colleges dailies would do well to imitate . . . Then Columbia is the very spirit of wit, - too apt, in the case of the Acta Columbiana, to degenerate into vulgarity. Of the Spectator, with its admirable illustrations, we wish to speak in terms of unqualified approval. It is suggestively humorous rather than broadly farcical; the little delicate touches that lighten the general effect are added...
...Horizontal and Parallel Bars. This is probably due to the fact that because one or two men excel on these pieces of apparatus, every one else thinks that there will be no chance for him, and therefore he will not enter. Now this is just the wrong spirit for a man to have, and we sincerely hope it will not be shown this year. Certainly we cannot all be spectators...
...afford this assistance to the members of their electives. Of course each of them has the right to do as he wishes in regard to what and how many books he will reserve, and is under no obligation to reserve any if he thinks it unnecessary. But when this spirit is carried farther, and all books bearing on a certain subject, in which there is to be an examination, are removed by the instructor from the Library a day or two before that examination, there is a manifest blunder committed. The removal of the books will not prevent the students...
With regard to College work, an entirely new and most enlightened spirit is announced...
There are several other points of interest bearing upon this whole matter in the Report, which is a most gratifying indication of the progress of a broad and liberal spirit on the part of the authorities...