Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hard-won major sport championships to the University's credit. The year has been one of early reverses uphill fighting, and final triumph in more than one branch of athletics. The overwhelming success of the football team last fall after unparalleled accidents testified to an indomitable fighting spirit. The track team retrieved a close defeat by Cornell by winning from Yale. And now Coach Haughton, taking charge in mid-season of a baseball team which had already lost its captain, has led it to triumph. With the victory from Yale in hockey and those in several of the minor sports...
...says the physician. Similarly one might say, "tell me how well you play at manly contests, and I will tell you how well you work intellectually;" and the error would be only one of degree. Herein lies fundamentally the wherefore of intercollegiate athletics. They also satisfy the spirit of competition in men; this requires victories,--and sometimes defeats. At present, however, the University feels that it does not need the latter; and it is with the words of our Marseillaise in mind that all now cry "On to New London!" There a strennous close to the campaign...
...Mitchell also contributes an essay. "Montaigne and the Modern Age" is a dignified defence of the spirit of scepticism. Cynicism and scepticism figure in this issue of the Monthly College men seem at times to fear sentiment and as a result they are apt to plunge to the other extreme. But Mr. Mitchell's essay is not of this type. His arguments and ideas are thoroughly sincere and well worked out in a spirit of toleration much needed in these troublous times...
...Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim," one of the most important books of the year. The editorial on the Dudley Gate is too cryptic for ready comprehension. Does it refer to the sculptured lines of verse on the two seats? If so, it is justified both in form and spirit...
...charge has often been made that college athletics are used merely as a money-making scheme for the colleges. The commercial spirit of the sport is said to be shown by the erection of immense stadiums all over the country simply to increase the revenue from the football games. As a matter of fact, the various University Athletic Associations in general have considerable difficulty in avoiding a large annual deficit...