Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inclined to contend that in this very particular Harvard is still at the van, for by abolishing compulsory prayers, our athletic teams can, if necessary, employ the additional time thus gained in athletic work. But without considering the matter from so low a standpoint, we can appreciate the spirit of the students of Yale in thus voluntarily submitting to such inconvenience. The action speaks well for the determined attitude of the college with respect to the coming season's work in rowing and base-ball. It proves, if any proof was necessary, that our opponents are calculacing upon a hard...
...private character. Some of us affect the Byronic and boast themselves "perfect Timons, not nineteen." Others betray the evil course of their life quite unconsciously. A few of us are cheats, and betray it in all that we do. But notwithstanding such exceptions, is it true that the spirit of Harvard fosters a loose morality and tends to elevate the evil above the good? It is true that our "social gatherings" are better attended than our prayer meetings, that societies offer more attractions than the chapel, that the Harvard spy-glass is not unknown in Boston theatres at certain seasons...
...sign a prayer petition can we be justly called a "pack of boys," as one New York paper styles us, or a "set of indifferent, dissolute young men," as still another journal classifies us. Every university has the same imputations laid at its doors in the same blind carping spirit. While we acknowledge all that is true, we protest against the sneer conveyed in the term "Harvard Morality...
...still feel that the courtesy of the press ought to have influenced the expression. The kindly feeling which has long existed between the various college papers, cannot easily be destroyed by criticisms of such a nature, but more pleasant relations will result in the future if a more generous spirit is shown. It is true that differences of opinion must always exist as to the relative merits of our different papers, but if we are called upon to express those opinions, let us remember that the manner of our expression will often betray the spirit in which we write...
...changes. If it is hard to go to a strange college, it is still harder to leave the college where one has formed friendships and attachments. It is harder, too, to give up all the feelings of college loyalty which form such an important part of student life. College spirit and college friendship give inestimable value to college life. Of an inferior sort indeed we would regard the students who could easily and willingly break their connection with a college that in truth they ought to look upon as their alma mater...