Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...killing in a Greek tragedy is done behind the scense; but that hardly concerns the critic, and the author has done cleverly what he set out to do. The writer of the account of school-boy incidents, "As Related by Mr. Reginald Richards," essays, not wholly without sucess, that spirit of virile and forceful juvenility which appeals to us all in "Tom Sawyer;" the fun, however, is meagre and the piece too young by several years; it belongs rather in the columns, let us say, of the Cambridge Latin School Review. Although one may admit that a tractate against snobbishness...
...Pickle of the Past," with a frank disclaimer of anything that makes for sentimentalism, gets down to the hardpan of wholesome boyish sentiment in a way that ought to delight his contemporaries; as it certainly will their fathers and uncles. "Cragan the Spalpeen" shows touches of Celtic with and spirit such as the author, if we may judge by his name, comes honestly by. The metre of line eleven halts badly and is easily amended. The author of "The Lecture-Tasters" is moderately funny; but here and there he is led too far astray by the exigencies of rhyme...
This year's team, Coach Marshall said, is being given excellent support, which it rightly deserves. Desperation, the state of many former teams, has often tied a score, but only triumphant confidence wins the game. Every undergraduate should give all his spirit to the team and victory is assured...
...enthusiastic mass meeting in the Living Room of the Union last evening in preparation for the game with the Yale freshmen tomorrow. S. M. Lowrey, manager of the team, presided and led the cheering. Captain Forster and Coach Boyd, in addressing the meeting, expressed their admiration for the spirit shown by all the members of the squad, and their regret over the loss of the captain and of two of the best players during the last few days. Every member of the class, said Coach Boyd, should be on the Square at noon to cheer the team, which is going...
Professor F. G. Peabody '69 will deliver the second of the Lowell Institute lectures, given under the auspices of the Harvard Divinity School, at 3 o'clock this afternoon in King's Chapel, Boston, on "The Spirit of Theology." This is the second lecture in a course of two lectures on "The Study of Theology and the Preaching of Religion...