Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...publish elsewhere a clipping from the Spirit of the Times which should be read by all who have the interest of Harvard athletics at heart. The writer of the article in question has evidently studied the case coolly and dispassionately, and while we are not prepared to endorse his sentiments in every particular, yet we think that some of his suggestions are excellent and trust that they will receive all the attention that they merit, not only from the boating men, but from the college in general. It is well known that Harvard athletics...
...became a university, and President Patton entered upon the duties of the office surrendered to him by Dr. McCosh after his term of twenty years. President Patton's address, "The Princeton of the Future," delivered before a large audience in Marquand Chapel, was remarkable for its liberal and progressive spirit. He urged radical changes in the curriculum and a wider range of electives, matters which the faculty will take into consideration this term. It is the new president's ambition to have a thousand names in Princeton's catalogue...
...which the college department of Columbia has now held for the past ten years. With such a city as New York to draw from, the number of students in the college should have increased rapidly were it not for a cause which is apparently slighted. The same narrow, pettifoging spirit still exists that was prevalent in every college a decade ago. The liberal principle of optional studies which has made such headway in all the leading colleges is to all practical purposes dead at Columbia. This conservative policy brings the college curriculum down to the same levelas the hum-drum...
...Monthly opens with two articles on journalism and its relation to the college. The first contains some good advice and may, perhaps, be a correct representation of the feeling of newspaper men toward college graduates, but we think that the writer is mistaken when he speaks of the spirit of intolerance at Harvard toward journalism. Harvard has not given any of her energy to the training of men for journalistic work simply because there has never been a strong demand for education in this particular field. The real basis of the antagonism is clearly seen by the second writer. College...
...number is swelled beyond its usual volume by an "Athletic Supplement" containing three articles written by men whose names are well known, and bearing on the absorbing athletic question at Harvard. The different sides of the 3-4 question are well presented, and the whole evinces a commendable spirit of enterprise on the part of the editors...