Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with affairs, and a provinciality in regard to the outside world, but great as has been the misfortune occasioned by such ignorance, it is not true that no improvement is visible. No one who entered college four years ago can help remarking the change which has come over the spirit of our life-a concrete example of which is shown in the enthusiasm with which Prof. Adler was greeted at the close of his discourse the other evening. We have heard enough from outside journals on our follies and immorality, and if such articles did not tend to injure...
...behind in the series and take a secondary position in college boat-racing. The management cannot feel that it is hampered for money or the result would be disastrous. No one wishes to see our boating interest disappear, but unless a radical change comes over the spirit of the men here that event is certain to occur. We hear that instead of an increased subscription list this year there is actually a smaller amount paid in than there was last February. We with-hold our censure of past extravagance, if it is to have any influence in preventing subscriptions. That...
...spirit that we fear has been in the way of economy hitherto, is that the management felt that they might "go ahead" and then leave the burden of the debt on their successors. This is unbusinesslike in the extreme and must be stopped...
...Gericke stepped upon the platform, he was greeted with a some what warmer reception than usual. The orchestra seemed to catch the spirit and gave one of the finest concerts for several seasons...
There was a very good attendance at vesper service in Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon. After an overture on the organ by Mr. Locke, the choir sang Schubert's Jubilate. After a prayer by Prof. Peabody, the 103rd Psalm was read responsively; after which the choir rendered Martin's Holy Spirit Come. Dr. Brooks, the speaker of the afternoon, then read from the 21st chapter of Revelations and spoke for a few minutes on the thoughts contained in this verse: "He that sitteth upon the throne, saith, behold I make all things...