Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...football season is at hand. Will a regenerated opinion show that Harvard can win as well as lose; or will the old lackadaisical spirit-occasioned, we believe, by a morbid fear of criticism-influence those who ought to offer their services and prevent them from making themselves known? If the new students of this year will be brave enough to care nothing for the feelings which certain badly bred but omnipresent persons are rude enough to show, then we may never hear again that remark which has become now extremely trite, "Oh! They don't know how to play foot...
...iconoclastic spirit is a powerful one; we love to see the old gods dethroned and new ones set in their places. Mr. T. S. Perry has unearthed a new god in the person of Ebenezer Jones, for whose poems he wishes us to make a place, even if we have to thrust aside "some of his more successful rivals, who are admired simply because they happen to be the fashion." Mr. Perry is an eloquent and skillful advocate, but we must not forget that "fashion" in such matters is usually right: if it makes a favorite of one poet...
...direction which our university is taking is one that is forced upon her by the progressive spirit of the age, and although the total of the courses given at Harvard may exceed that given in any other educational institution in America, a careful inspection would show that certain departments, particularly those of history and of political economy, are not up to the highest standard as regards variety. Comparing our electives with those offered at a great European university, like that of Berlin or that of Paris, the number will appear small. It must be borne in mind, however, that...
...deserves to be noticed also that the spirit pervading the players and spectators throughout the game was of the pleasantest in every way. This fact lent a very agreeable tone to the contest...
...centre of the base-ball enthusiasm of this country, and yet men look for defeat to-day and say that Yale has a better team than Harvard. It is ridiculous that such a state of affairs should exist. Can it be that the solution lies in that lackadaisical spirit which is said to pervade Harvard society? May the event of to-day's game prove that energy, not the best material, can win at base-ball...