Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...read the editorial more carefully, he would see that this was not the case; but on the contrary, that it was directed against men in college who have ability they will not develop. If the editorial in question was not clear enough in this point, the spirit of the editorial of Saturday's issue was unmistakeable. We quote a few lines: "As a whole the meetings this year have not been up to the standard of former years; not, we think, because of any negligence on the part of the students of the Athletic Association, but rather because...
...second number of the Advocate issued by the '89 board cannot be said to equal the first number. The articles have a uniformity, a lack of individuality that is quite noticeable; still they contain much that is good. The spirit of the editorials is in harmony with a growing feeling at Harvard; a feeling that we as students have serious business on our hands in the effort to awaken enthusiasm for the University. The Advocate has not lost its character as a staunch supporter of college interests...
...motive coming from an interest in religious matters themselves. By showing our faces within the chapel doors, we prove that we are on the side of good order; that we are filled with earnestness and de termination in our daily life. There can be no better criterion of the spirit animating the men of Harvard than the numbers seen at morning prayers. If indifference is to rule, then the present system must fail; if earnestness and determination are to be the future characteristics of the Harvard spirit in athletics and in every other field, we must soon see a marked...
...Ernest Rhys, in his address of last night, said that the essential part of the new poetry was its spirit, not its metre. Each age is different from all those that preceded it, and is filled with new thoughts, which need a new poetry for their expression. Poets must not shut themselves up away from the world, but must move in the heart of affairs; they must share in the life-blood of the general heart in order to express the whole spirit and burden of their times. The poets of the Elizabethan age took the common idioms and jokes...
...phantasms of sane persons are divided into two classes-those of the living and those of the dead. Under the head of phantasms of the living are included visions of dying people. It has been supposed that all such visions can be accounted for by the theory that the spirit of the living person leaves its body and appears to others at a distance. This theory is difficult of belief, because in all recorded cases the ghost appears clothed, and it can hardly be conceived that an old hat has a spirit which can leave the hat and appear...