Word: spirited
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...many text-books, four times as many magazines, and slightly less than twice as many articles of clothing have been obtained this spring as were a year ago. If this demonstration is considered a criterion, the communication regarding musical instruments for French convalescents may be received in the spirit which it deserves...
...than a hundred who participated in the practice at Princeton, the situation is decidedly dubious. The prospects in football were made bright a short time ago when the services of Percy Haughton were assured as head coach. But a team cannot be made by coaching alone. Some amount of spirit is necessary on the part of the players as well. Although the records of football at Harvard have been satisfactory during the past five years, these victories cannot be expected to uphold our position in the future. The achievement of 41 to 0 makes it all the more important that...
...noisy sparrows singing in the rain." Mr. Cutler's facile translation of an ode of Horace is never far from the original; it preserves much of the spirit...
...only editorial in the number revives the old controversy about clubs at Harvard with impeccable impartiality it refrains from offering any specific suggestion. There was a day when the Advocate treated the same subject more in the spirit of the crusader...
...present some tutorial conferences become little more than fortnightly section meetings, with prescribed reading that tends to confuse rather than to systematize the subject matter. What is needed is not more reading but more intensive reading. The difficulty is increased when the students do not enter into the spirit of the plan, whose essence is co-operation between tutor and student...