Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...state of the Yard dormitories as far as the comfort of the men living in them is concerned, is hardly such as to justify the maintenance of a real and trying inconvenience that may be remedied at small expense. In view of the excellent spirit shown by the class of 1911 in the matter of Senior dormitories, it does not seem too much to expect the authorities to remedy the present unlighted conditions of the Yard halls after midnight...
...itself? Is the University run for the Faculty or for the students? What are other institutions doing which we might well adopt? Is our lazy satisfaction warranted? A live magazine, such as Harvard has the ability and the duty to maintain, should answer these questions, not in a spirit of chronic protest, but with the idea of arousing undergraduate interest in College affairs other than football, and of expressing this opinion for the service of the authorities. One of the undergraduate papers is already committed to this policy, another has the equally important aim of preserving the best literary work...
Besides this major inquiry into the University's efficiency, there are three minor ones, making in all an amount of criticism which is an excellent indication of that spirit of mutual frankness which President Lowell so much desires. The first of them is a vigorous plea by Mr. Cochrane '00 for the establishment of a course not merely on, but in Socialism. In resonant periods he berates us for not living up to our responsibility as "the foremost educational institution in the country" by turning out each year a goodly number of such enthusiasts as he is. I suspect, however...
...instant and lasting popularity or admiration from other men by being such rakish chaps, and in the second, they should have learned to behave in a respectable way despite the circumstances. What a surprise it would be if these roving bands, without being urged, should hereafter when excess of spirit or spirits overtakes them, retire to some vacant field and there make all the noise they care to far from the shades of Cambridge and the open windows of members of athletic teams, which these same bands supposedly wish to see win games. G. P. GARDNER...
...congratulate the track team upon the remarkable way in which it acquitted itself on Saturday. The victory was a noteworthy triumph of concerted effort, and stands as a splendid tribute to Captain Little, the coaches, and every member of the squad. May we see more of this spirit of determined co-operation...