Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cannot speak too warmly of the earnest, manly, and studious spirit which has pervaded in the University in recent years. I believe that the professors in the literary department are agreed in the opinion that the introduction of the elective system into the last two or two and a half years of the collegiate courses has contributed much to this result. There has been in years past much undiscriminating criticism by some ultra-conservative college officers in the East of any attempt at modifying the iron-clad curriculum. But it is noteworthy that the very colleges which have been...
...Education," from Prof. G. T. Ladd, of Yale. It is entitled "Education, New and Old." It opens with a conservative's doubt of what is novel. Credit is given to Prof. Palmer for the fair statement of his views. The writer also accords with the ethical spirit of the article of his opponent. The first difference of opinion is seen in the motives cited by the different writers, for the higher tone present among Harvard students, as claimed by Prof. Palmer. Prof. Ladd finds this same spirit of the gentleman at Yale, and asserts that it is general...
...controlled by human agency. The new or ethical school considers political economy an ethical and moral science. The ground we should take is one between these two. Sympathy, years of agitation, legislature have been the factors in lightening the load of evils with which the workingman is overburdened. The spirit of the "laisser faire" economist is that it is useless to work for a better condition, as the present is the "natural order of things." After science has pointed out certain results, sympathy comes in and teaches how to use these results. The sphere of sympathy is as wide...
...almost an unbroken series of Harvard graduates, and in return the school has continued, we might almost say for centuries, to supply the university with an annual contingent of scholars including nearly its entire graduating class. Almost one hundred Latin school graduates are now studying at Harvard. The "Harvard spirit" rules in the Latin school and a "Harvard man" there assumes gigantic proportions. Nothing could argue better for the healthy influence of Harvard than this same spirit. Each year ought to witness its increase throughout the preparatory schools, not only of New England but of the whole country...
...with some difficulty, and that as yet no decision has been reached. The members of last year's eleven are about as evenly divided on the two candidates for the position, and are unwilling to declare elected any one who may have only one or two votes majority. This spirit is commendable, because it shows a desire to show to the college at large as much satisfaction as possible, Foot-ball has a pretty hard blow to recover from here at Harvard, and only extreme care in choosing for next year's eleven a captain who is sure...