Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class. Despite the efforts made to form a freshman banjo club, through lack of enthusiasm the plan has proved unsuccessful. The freshmen, in their exclusiveness, do not seem to wish to mingle with classmates outside their own clique. Come, '92! Set aside this false modesty, this lack-a-daisical spirit, this laziness which has so far characterized you. Help your poor football team with all your might, be energetic enough to form a banjo club and glee club which will not be held up to ridicule. There is plenty of good material in the class to do all this...
Shortly after the Harvard-Wesleyan game at Middletown two weeks ago, the Wisleyan Argus published two editorials, the spirit of which the following extracts will indicate...
...grave. The present method seems ta satisfy the parties most interested in its success-why not leave it alone? The further recommendation of "making attendance at daily prayers, or at roll call, for those who do not wish to attend prayers, compulsory," is a relic of the illiberal spirit which was already on the wane twenty years ago; a spirit which it would ill become a university like Harvard to adopt...
...speaker began by saying that in order to attain art, you must have the instruments; the instrument of a comedian lies within himself; it is his body. his life. The comedian must, when he produces a character, enter completely into its spirit. He must penetrate the impressions conveyed by the author, and at the same time give the character as intended by the author and not as conceived by himself...
...Church of England: but I do esteem the method of ordination as practised in Scotland, at Geneva, and among the dissenters in England, and in the churches in this country, to be very safe, scriptural and valid: and that the great Head of the church, by his blessed spirit, hath owned, sanctified and blessed them accordingly, and will continue so to do to the end of the world. Amen...