Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first game in the class championship series was played yesterday afternoon on Norton's field between the sophomores and freshmen. Both teams played with spirit. Two thirty minute balves were played...
...very unfortunate that there ahould be any occasion for the infliction of such a punishment. It is rather a trite saying but it cannot be too strongly urged that the spirit which should govern all college sports is that of fair play and good faith. A high standard must be maintained and any resort to other than perfectly open means must be deplored as showing a decadence in the manly rivalry which is the life of college athletics...
...examine all art we find it more or less dependent upon the Greeks. The great features of the Greeks were simplicity, truth and beauty. And to this they added the ability to express the inward thought in visible form. We have more or less lost the spirit of the Greeks and our sentiments are mostly confined to christianity. As scholars have realized this they have turned to the work of the ancients and tried to bring the Greek spirit before us in innumerable books. The Archaeological Institute was founded to examine the monuments of all men but as they think...
...contents of the number are on the whole good. The opening editorial is written in a strong vigorous spirit, and summarizes in a very successful way the causes of our lack of success in athletics in recent years. It is only too true that one of the fatal weaknesses of the college in an athletic way is our proneness to one-man dependence, or as the Advocate terms it, "the star system." A result of this is that we are easily discouraged; let anything happen to our star and we become despondent and down on our luck, lose half...
...number of men who are trying for the freshman eleven is not so large as it ought to be. The class is not displaying the energetic spirit which we are accustomed to see in freshman classes here at Harvard. There is an abundance of good foot ball material in the class, and there is no reason why Ninety-three should not be represented by a successful eleven. Of late years it has become an established precedent for the freshman eleven to win the Yale game, and Ninety-three is expected to continue this precedent. The best wishes of the entire...