Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...them than the students themselves it looks very much as if college games were properly professional contests-and that would be but another way of saying that they had missed their object. Their only purpose, so far as we can see, is to keep alive a thorough-going spirit of manly enthusiasm among the students to act as it were hand in hand with our other advantages here. If, then, athletics are for the students rather than for the world, it seems but fair that the students should reap the benefits of the games. This certainly they can never...
...President Harrison is pledged to observe the spirit and letter of civil service reform and its extension-Chicago Platform, Letter of acceptance and Inaugural address...
...Harrison has been false to the spirit of reform in his appointments-Public Opinion, March 23, June 8; Nation, May 23, August 1, 1889; Civil Service Record from June to October...
...beside the effects of the class series upon the sport itself, there has been another result which is in the long run quite as beneficial. We refer to the reawakening of class enthusiasm. The university spirit here has among its dangers the total extinction of class feeling, and this tandency has been quietly at work for the last few years. That all class enthusiasm should be crushed out, however, seems far from desirable. We are a little apt in some ways to grow old too soon here at Harvard, and in the development of our individuality to forget that class...
This system, Mr. Taylor says, has scarcely any resemblance to the English system of rowing. The science of rowing has not remained inthe state in which has not remained in the state in which Mr. Cook found it in 1872. The progressive spirit of this century has shown itself in the science of rowing, and while Americans are ahead in the science of rigging, Englishmen are probably ahead in the science of rowing, on account of their superior leg work. In 1885 Mr. Storrow paid a good deal of attention ts leg work with excellent results; since then Yale...