Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Intercollegiate Football League, is justified. To put on teams players who are not bona fide students has a pernicious effect on the teams, on the colleges, and on the sport. College athletics have become infected with professionalism, and there is no prospect of improvement under the present League. The spirit of recent conventions has been that of casting formal difficulties in the way of a proper agreement between gentlemen. We are convinced that the League in its present form is an obstacle to genuine sport...
...evidence in Harvard's favor will prove a surprise even to those who have been all along the most sanguine. Practically every doubtful question has been satisfactorily answered, and certainly every serious charge has been fully met. One of the best features of the report too, is the evident spirit of fairness with which the whole matter has been treated. There has been no attempt at a concealment of Harvard's real faults and no desire to avoid the evidence of any seemingly disagreeable facts which may have been brought to light during the recent controversy. The football question...
...choir sang Schubert's Jubilate in B flat, Allen's "In the beginning was the world," and "Spirit of Mercy" by Barnaby...
...after-dinner remarks laid special stress on the dangerous element in college. He proceeded to make an analysis of this element of college life which results from the foolishness of homes, the priggishness of many preparatory schools, and the selfishness of some natures. The false standards, false ideals, spirit of worldliness, and the worship of money at homes where expenses are carried beyond the bounds of reason and habits are excessive, are so threatening as to make all students apprehensive. There is little hope for a boy whose father is a man of the world, and whose mother is engaged...
...Glee club followed, of which the "Cannibalee" was best liked. Mr. Fullerton sang the solo part in this, and an encore was demanded. The next on the programme was a Stranss polka "For Love of Her" arranged for the Banjo club. The selection was played with great spirit and precision. The soloist of the evening was Mr. L. A. Corne who played a selection from Rode's Seventh Concert for the violin. Mr. Corne played with considerable feeling and depth but evidently lacked in technical skill. The second part opened with a Volkmann Suite for String Orchestra and was followed...