Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Union being represented. While the association is not one which demands recognition or which enforces its point of view, it has been steadily growing in strength and prestige until in the near future it will undoubtedly be an all-important factor in moulding the practice as well as the spirit of intercollegiate athletics...
...This Christmas Eve reception will be the first use President and Mrs. Lowell will make of their new home, while the Christmas night gathering will be the first ever held in Brooks House. With such receptions in store, the students in Cambridge have ample opportunity to enter into the spirit of good cheer and fellowship that attend the Christmas season...
...Illustrated, however, takes issue with the CRIMSON when it states that the authors, and hence the editors, showed not only that they were "unacquainted with the facts, but apparently with the spirit that governs our athletics." The Illustrated believe that they had reasonable grounds for assuming that scouting signals on the field (if such had been the fact) was as much a part of the spirit of modern football as scouting plays throughout the season. Is it not after all an open question whether the spirit that makes a practice of openly sending Harvard coaches to attend Dartmouth's games...
...therefore not our acquaintance with the spirit of modern athletics that is at question. The question is rather, would not a general acquaintance with this "scouting" spirit carry the average undergraduate logically to the erroneous conclusion that scouting signals is considered a legitimate part of a modern football campaign. If this is so, although regretting that any suspicion of a "charge" against Harvard's teams or coaches has been thought of, the Illustrated believes that some good may yet arise from a consideration of this subject of scouting in college athletics by the authorities of the larger colleges, a question...
...performance is by far the worst instance of this I have ever seen. Never before, I believe, have two pages of the Monthly contained so much unadulterated nonsense, so many and so various murderous assaults upon English usage. "Together," says A. W. W., of Browning and Mackaye, "their spirit-prayers pulso upward, and in the years two before two other of their eyes watched in sturdy appreciation the prying crocus crimson through the lawn." Even after allowing for the worst that the printer can have done to the English, one must blame the critic's botany. Mr. Mackaye...