Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Symphony Orchestra. He applied the same principle in the case of his University. In 1890, he thought Harvard needed a playground: the result was Soldiers Field. In 1900, he believed he saw the need of a centre for university life: the result was the Union. With the same spirit the Corporation acquired and built up the present great Medical School...
...judge as a protecting agent for carrying out the substantial requirements of law and justice. Some considerable portion of the public from time to time gets much interested, through the newspapers, in this game of council umpired, by the judge. They admire and applaud the ingenuity and spirit with which counsel take technical points for their clients, and the public press often sympathizes with and encourages this misdirected admiration. Of course, the best men in the practice of the law do not insist on technical points in favor of their clients, but rather waive them, and the best judges...
...contest at Yale. Then this body might select the winning work and give the prize to its author. The establishment of any such plan would surely increase to a large degree the interest and activity of the students of both institutions in literary and scholarly work, for the spirit of intercollegiate competition would be a powerful stimulant to intellectual energy...
...series, it is extremely important that it should be a victory, and if the team wins it will be the result of the hardest kind of fighting. The expert coaching which has shown its effect in the consistent playing of this year and the splendid fighting spirit, as displayed in the uphill victory over Princeton, will bring a victory tonight if it is a possibility...
...with regret that we see Dartmouth dropped from the football schedule. Because of the excellent spirit of the Dartmouth teams and their supporters, the game has long been one of the events of the year. However, Doctor Nichols has for two years insisted that at least one of the three heavy games be dropped in order to lighten the strain upon the players even though this must be done at the sacrifice of the game with Dartmouth. In future years, it may be possible to distribute the hard games, and then we hope to see Dartmouth again upon the schedule...