Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...slump by defeating the strongest team Princeton has had in recent years. Yale is ahead; and in spite of having suffered several defeats, may be expected to bring a fighting eleven to Cambridge two weeks hence. That the University will be prepared to meet them in as strong a spirit cannot be doubled...
...poetry excells. Hillyer's "Retrospect" indubitably sings,--though in a well-worn tone; Dos Passos admirably conveys the spirit of the prairies; and Nelson's "Madam" strikes an original vital poetic note. His readers, however, should not turn the page. The remaining verse is more conventional. Hillyer's first sonnet too clearly recalls Drayton; his second, Donne: they constitute studies rather than self-expression. The anonymous run on sonnet appears at line fourteen to have missed connections. Howe's sapphics, on the other hand, are metrical and in phrasing delightful though artificial...
...much spirit cannot be displayed at the game in Princeton tomorrow--but there is danger in New York...
...Scandinavian students at Lund, Denmark, in 1842, farsighted university men have been dreaming of an international understanding. All through the second half of the nineteenth century and up to the fateful July of 1914 national and international conferences had been held all over the world to further a spirit which, if followed by governments as well as by individuals, might have saved much to the world. But then came the plunge--and it seemed as if the cosmopolitan spirit might perish from the earth...
There is little, if any, of the college rowdyism, or "rah rah" spirit at Harvard. And for the majority an intercollegiate football game means something more than an opportunity to give vent to "canned enthusiasm" by wild cheers and drunkenness. It is a clean contest, well and fairly fought, an exhibition of skill, grit, loyalty and team-work, that leaves the spectator with an increased desire to attain those qualities for himself...