Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subject for the next Theme in English 5 is: "The spirit in which biography should be written...
...Comparative Anatomy suddenly disappeared, and after two weeks just as suddenly returned to the shelves. Several reserved books in History 9 have also gone on a vacation. The popular theory that spiritualistic mediums are at work here is repudiated by the Library authorities. But whether the thief is a spirit or not, the College authorities, if they detect him, will treat him very materially...
...Class of Eighty-one has every reason for most hearty congratulation over the result of their class elections. A more orderly and public-spirited meeting would be difficult to find. The lines of society prejudice were utterly disregarded, and to judge from the reports of the tellers, every man voted not for a member of the same petty clique, but for the candidate who really seemed most worthy of the position. Slurs on the harmony of the class are utterly silenced. The large number of elections by acclamation or by a unanimous vote, the ease and speed with which...
...loss by the disabling of its captain early in the year. We were glad to notice that the game of Saturday was an improvement on the Yale game last year, both in the brutality in the hostile eleven and in the disposition to quarrel, and we hope that this spirit may direct our future contests with Yale. With a record of six games played and only two defeats, we think the Football Team need not be discouraged, but may look forward to a time when Harvard shall again be champion of the country, as she is now of Canada...
...wish to call attention, though in no faultfinding spirit, to the manner in which Fine Arts I has to be conducted. Unfortunately, so many students have elected this course that the instructor cannot give as much time to each one as is essential to intelligent progress; and in view of this fact, some step should be taken to make the course equally profitable to all who have elected it for the purpose of getting the best results. To expect a student to wait a half hour for his turn with the instructor without losing his equanimity, to say nothing...