Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great satisfaction that more than a quarter part of its students are to-day sons of tradesmen, shopkeepers, mechanics, salesmen, foremen, laborers and farmers. I found sons of butchers, coopers, grocers and clothworkers - the Harvard trades - on the roll of its students today. May no restrictive policy or spirit ever separate the university which bears John Harvard's name from that laborious, frugal, self-respecting part of the community to which he and his belonged...
...reinstatement of Harvard in the inter-collegiate league. Meanwhile the only thing to be done is to organize class elevens to compete for the championship of the college. From these teams a fairly strong 'varsity eleven may be picked to play the Canadian teams, and thus the foot-ball spirit may be kept alive until the cloud of faculty disapproval, which now rests above the sport, shall be removed...
...better fall sport has ever been desired than foot-ball, and its abandonment by the college cannot fail to be taken as an indication of the wane of that spirit of pluck and hardihood which has characterized the Harvard undergraduate of the past...
...relations to "Bloody Monday Night." A communication from "An '88 Man," which will be found in another column, contains a strong appeal for the discontinuance of the customary freshman entertainments. The effort to do away with this annual celebration is by no means the outgrowth of any recent spirit of reform. Protests have been made before, and often, too, against the further continuance of the custom. Yet the fact remains that "Bloody Monday," though not the night of terror that it once was, is still a Cambridge institution. Whether or not it will die out entirely, or will still hold...
...grounds of our old-time rivals? First of all, let every man attend the game and support the nine in a manner befitting its deserts, and when the game is finished and the victory ours, let there go up from old Holmes a shout which will show that Harvard "spirit" is not yet dead. But one word,- let not a sound escape at an opponent's error, but let there be applause for good plays on either side. This will be done; there is no need of our giving such gratuitious warning, for Harvard is famed for her generous treatment...