Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Survival of the Fittest" is rather an ill chosen title for a story told with a great deal of life and spirit. The sketch of a man with ambition but "without backbone" has a good deal that is interesting, though it may well be questioned whether "invertebrate" ambition may be properly called ambition...
...Catullus were alive to-day he would read "Venus Victrix" with pure delight and perhaps with no little surprise at finding that his spirit lives on in this cold, material nineteenth century. A more admirable piece of verse has not appeared in college papers for a long time...
...will be satisfied, if he is a reasonable man. Theology is a science, so appeal to experts; do not say that a thing is untrue because you find it so. Religion is a man's personal obligation to Christ. One should approach religion with a child's spirit and not with a student's spirit. Student spirit is for Theology. A man must go to the bottom and begin his religion as a little child. A man at twenty without a religion is truly to be pitied. "Truth is not to think...
...cannot be overcome. The principle in dealing with sin is not prohibition, but substitution. The only way to keep high is to keep in high company-to follow Christ. Every man should try Christianity; then his whole nature will be softened and will become more spiritualized. "Walk in the Spirit and be shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh...
...result of the election of class officers by the freshman class at Harvard College shows the change that is gradually taking place in the class spirit of the institution. Twenty years ago and more the classes at Harvard were comparatively small, so small, in deed, that, in the course of the four years' term, each undergraduate became tolerably well acquainted with all of the numbers of this class, and with quite a number of young men who were members of classes immediately above or bellows. Of late years, however, the classes have been so large (and there seems...