Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...College Spirit, spelled with capitals and thought of as an intangible something greatly to be desired, is sometimes a curse. While we are seeking it so diligently we often lose sight of the fact that it ceases to be a virture when improprieties and injustices can be committed under cover of its magic name. But leaving generalities aside, let's look the situation squarely in the face and find a few specific instances. Take the question of the night shirt parades. We have no objection to the parade. But when a reckless gang of paraders make an exuberance of College...
...College Spirit is a curse when it prompts a student to stoop to any dishonorable act in order to uphold the prestige of his school. To place money on a game because of a misconceived idea that loyalty to team and college demands it, is a fatal error common among college men. Gambling on the athletic contest, even when prompted by an overflow of zeal, is an evil just the same as the game of chance conducted in a dive...
...misconception of College Spirit that makes such unreasonable demands of the men wearing the institution's colors. Apply the test to athletics or what you will, College Spirit, truly interpreted, is just and sensible. The trouble is that "College Spirit" has become a mere catch phrase with which college students love to conjure. It is used as an excuse - an' apology for something that has no right to exist. There is a genuine College Spirit,-and it is a "consummation devoutly to be wished." It means real loyalty,-not vandalism. Love of institution that prompts sane, beneficial activity is what...
Hard and conscientious work will be necessary on the part of all participating in track work if the University team is to be a successful one next season. The team has never been found wanting this year in the spirit of work but has suffered from a lack of material. While it was true that unfortunate injuries greatly handicapped the team in all of its meets, yet it was also true that when injuries retired the most promising men, there was not a vast amount of material from which men could be drawn to fill their places. In looking...
...constantly increasing, a sign, which augers well. With 350 men engaged in Social Service we cannot but believe that Harvard is not only numerically maintaining her lead over other colleges in this field, but that her men are imbued with a sincerity of purpose to help others, a true spirit of service...