Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems to us that Yale has the hardest victory to win, as well as the one most worth the winning. Yale was founded in a spirit of religious sectarianism, if not intollerance, and it must be difficult for her to meet even half way the growing need of American collegiate life, chief among which, of course, is freedom of religious thought. But the demand must be met, or the college must acknowledge herself defeated. This, we are sure, will not be permitted by her undergraduate spirit of pluck and pride...
...present success at Harvard, and by its past history at Yale. In the first place the interest of the students must be aroused before any good can come. That one man alone cannot hold the student's attention and keep up their interest has been shown by the indifferent spirit of the past few years, while the interest awakened at Harvard speaks well for the itinerant method...
...Penal Laws' of this early code are rigorous in the extreme, covering twenty-four sections of one chapter. This is in marked contrast to the present spirit which has not excluded the mention of a penalty in connection with any particular irregularity. A student masquerading "in woman's apparel" was liable to expulsion. "If any scholar unnecessarily frequents taverns." "profanely curse, swear," "play at cards or dice" he was liable to a fine for a fresh offence and to all the terrors of the law for continuance in his misdemeanor. "No person of what degree soever residing in the college...
...into "the makeup" of this paper, it certainly will touch personally more than a few of those who read it. We thank Mr. Wendell for what he has done, feeling that it is far too rarely the case that any disputed matter is treated publicly in a thoroughly impartial spirit...
...tending, our critics say, as they have said any time these hundred years, to rear a race of good-humored do nothings, if not worse; and so on. There is but one answer to this. That is to be found in the Harvard spirit of which I have already spoken. Go where you will and look at Harvard men and the work they are doing in the world. It is not brilliant, perhaps; it may lack the uncompromising vigor that the cant of our day describes as practical. But wherever you find Harmen in a body you find honest, self...