Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...comfort and warning. They must not be discouraged. The upperclassmen really think a great deal of them, and would show it if they dared. But they are afraid to oppose the college feeling. They have to be cold to their nearest friends even, or else the well-known spirit of indifference, which has held sway so long, will be compelled to seek a kingdom in some other empire less favored than that of Cambridge...
...which many of us now map out our work. The results of our elective system are, as we all know, even far beyond expectation, but we should not omit to guard against the evils which it, in common with every good thing, may bring with it a little conservative spirit, may fitly be preached to the liberalism and freedom...
...freshman-sophomoric rejoicings are now happily past. All honor to this true Harvard spirit so manfully expressed one Monday evening which led an admiring by-stander to inquire with interest, "Are those the Harvard students?" We ask pardon if, in our Monday's issue, the unanimous sentiment of the CRIMSON there expressed, was displeasing to anyone, especially to those hospitable freshmen and those quiet and complaisant sophomores and upperclassmen who so thoroughly appreciate the best means of preserving the honor and advancing the real interests of the university, against which the CRIMSON has so treasonably spoken...
...even if they do not now know it, that they are working to gain knowledge and undergo training, and that artificial helps do not aid them, but only make the motive for their work an unworthy one. It is not the learning that is to avail us, but the spirit in which the learning is sought...
...divine worship which as a member of a Christian home he is wont to employ. If it can be demonstrated by an actual diminution in the number of those present at Chapel that the petition which met with such support from the students was dictated by other than a spirit of adherence to principle, it can be urged justly that the students of the university have belied themselves and have masked under an assumption of honor an indefensible form of laziness. It was urged when the first prayer petition was presented to the Overseers, that the cause of the petition...