Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this title, a recent magazine article gives an account of a visit to that beautiful suburb of London, Harrow, and also of its famous preparatory school. Harrow and Eton are the two great English preparatory schools, and are characterized, only to a lesser extent, by the same rivalry and spirit of contention that the great universities of Cambridge and of Oxford display towards each other. Harrow is among schools a venerable patriarch, being founded in 1571, but still is obliged to assume the humble position of younger brother with reference to Eton, which came into existence about one hundred...
...recent effort which the students of Yale have made to obtain a more commodious gymnasium evidences the present strength of the athletic spirit at New Haven. We can hardly sympathize properly with a school which is not afforded exceptional advantages in athletics, for the reason that the excellence of our own accommodations has become so familiar to us. Yale has labored under many serious disadvantages, both in respect to her gymnasium and also in the situation of her athletic grounds. When it is brought forcibly to our notice that our opponents do not enjoy the same facilities which we enjoy...
...that fellows are not thrown so much together at a day school as they all are in Cambridge; but on the other hand they generally remain more than four years at school. The associations which many of the more important schools have formed, try to keep alive the school spirit and bring the graduates together; but in most cases they are far from successful, and none thinks of attending their meetings, even if he takes the trouble to join them after leaving school. Explain it as we will, the fact remains that most fellows do nothing about perpetuating the reminiscences...
...Baird in the Spirit of the Times declares that a man can never become an athlete without brains...
...progressive and liberal spirit which has characterized the actions of Cornell in educational matters is again shown by the manner in which the Cornell Snn takes up the question of the "True University...