Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BOSTON, November 20, 1880.MY DEAR BET. - You may thank your lucky stars that you did not accompany the team to Boston; for, although we won the game, and succeeded in laying up two of Harvard's men in addition, still we were treated throughout with that spirit of unfairness which always has been and, I suppose, always will be a characteristic of Harvard...
MUCH criticism has been passed on the manner in which College meetings have been held this autumn, and many of the students are far from approving the spirit which has crept into them. The plan of calling a meeting of the College where the election of officers is supposed to be open, and running through a ticket already prepared, by means of a nominating committee already instructed, cannot be too highly censured. It is foreign to the very purpose of an open meeting, and to the present spirit of Harvard, where fair play is deemed the first principle of action...
When I revived and sat up, I first saw my deliverer, - a simple lord of nature, a rough, grizzled man, who was leaning upon his weapon and contemplating the fallen animal; at the same time chewing vigorously, and, with native simplicity of spirit, firing tobacco-juice at the exact centre of a small pebble some twenty feet distant. I was overcome with emotion; but even then I was proper. I blushed, saying, "Excuse my unwonted appearance, kind sir; and will you take me home at once, for I wouldn't be found here alone with you for any thing...
...well known, is attended in the evening by a class of readers far more careless than students. Moreover, the electric light has been introduced with success in many public buildings. Could it be done here, the difficulty would be solved. It is, therefore, to be hoped that the same spirit which so unexpectedly gave us plank, brick, and flag walks, and the use of the Library on Sunday, will also soon open the Library in the evening...
...malicious exaggeration. The Echo has a perfect right to criticise, in a courteous manner, any line of conduct that seems unjust; but it has no right whatsoever to insult an instructor who may have displeased some portion of the men in his elective. Both the matter and the spirit of the article in question call for the severest reproof from all who have any desire that our College journalism shall at least be free from the element of vulgarity...