Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fallen to the lot of an American university before to be able to exhibit to the admiring eyes of its friends such a number of champion teams as is our good fortune to possess at present, and if Harvard enthusiasm is not thoroughly aroused thereby, we certainly mistake the spirit of the university...
...reports are correct, the Yale faculty has shown a very petty spirit in regard to the proposed lectures on protection, which Professor Thompson, of the University of Pennsylvania, is delivering at New Haven. It seems that these lectures are to be given at the request of some of the students who are interested in tariff discussions. The report having spread abroad that Professor Thompson would lecture at the invitation of the faculty, that worthy body hastened to correct the mistake, and disclaimed any official connection with the eloquent advocate of protective tariffs. "Yale still stands by Professor Sumner...
...Rebellion. Great as was the interest then manifested in this subject, we feel that there exists to-day even a stronger desire for information concerning this important epoch of our history. Many causes have recently been brought to bear which tend directly towards an awakening of this spirit of inquiry. The deaths of Generals Grant and McClellan have served to bring to memory many half-forgotten events of the war period. The series of war papers in the Century have been of incalculable worth in rendering our generations more familiar with the great strife which it was not our fortune...
Anyone who visits the college rooms here may note the prevalence of magazine reading. Monthlies like Harper's and the Century seem always to have a great fascination for college men. Such literature is thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the age, and we are in full sympathy - one thinks sometimes in too full sympathy - with the modern spirit...
...power of our agricultural products to feed the nations of Europe, saying that soon those countries will come to us for a philosophy as they now do for our produce. This is a "consummation devoutly to be wished," but which we can never expect, for the mercantile spirit that is so powerful in America to-day is not the one on which a philosophy that is destined to permeate all the peoples of the earth can be built. America has yet to appreciate the fact that it has much to learn, and is, therefore, at the very foot...