Word: spirited
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...love of their alma mater. And still the hue and cry continues, "Don't go to Harvard unless you are rich." It is impossible to see how such a mistaken impression about a place should exist where, in the very heart of its life, we find enshrined the spirit of Spartan poverty and simplicity...
Harvard has awakened. The spirit which has animated, or rather destroyed, our life here has received so many shocks during the past few months that we doubt if it will ever make its appearance again as a potent factor in Harvard life. The system of compensation which has been in vogue here for some time past was as abnormal a system as could well be conceived. How it was possible for it to grow up and flourish in the rank luxuriance it enjoyed perhaps will remain a mystery forever; for it is hard to conceive of any cause which could...
...present vicious law of compensation." Dinners are times for joviality, and last Friday's banquet was no exception to that rule, but still there was hardly a speech that evening which did not turn upon the evils which had beset and were besetting Harvard life, and there was a spirit of earnestness and determination shown which, if transplanted into every class in college without losing any of its vim and courage, Yale could no longer be called "champion," and parents would no longer hesitate to send their sons to Harvard...
...Such an organization as the Knights of Labor develops the spirit of bro herhood and enables the stronger to aid the weaker, (b) the order admits working women and negroes.- R. T. Ely, "Labor Movement in America...
...strife has returned before. True. But now it has not returned to be driven away by any soft words of conciliation. It has come to stay until the spirit of Yale College has risen to a level of manliness high enough to cast its disapproval upon such speeches as that with which Captains Beecher and Peters have favored their friends. The Advocate, in its last number, has some pithy and hard editorials upon the re-appearance of this "muckerism," but we can say that the Advocate has not gone a step too far. Men who would speak as these...