Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...whole, peaceful: the committee's relation to the Faculty and to the Governing Boards was never seriously disturbed; and its already good understanding with the students continued. Moreover, in intercollegiate sport the year brought unusual success. In football, Mr. Haughton, an unpaid coach, put the finest spirit into a young and inexperienced team, got the best work out of it, and won. In hockey, the University team showed great and efficient strength. In track athletics, the team lost the dual games with Yale, but came out first at the intercollegiate track meet with the largest score on record. In rowing...
...fourteen meetings, their combined attendance amounted to twelve out of a maximum of forty-two; and at each of six meetings no one of them appeared. Theoretically this state of things is dangerous; practically it is only inconvenient. It is inconvenient and not dangerous because of the fine spirit shown by the undergraduate members. If the three Faculty members think one way, and the three undergraduates another, the undergraduates may put through what they please, since one of the Faculty members is in the chair and cannot vote, to make a tie. At such times, when the combined undergraduate...
German as all this is, alike in outward aspect and inner spirit, in both speech and action, it is universally human, comprehensible, and touching, while the exotic setting, as it seems to us in American, of the Karlsberg court and the Heidelberg inn, only adds another tang to the pleasure of the whole. Thus, in a measure, is "Alt Heidelberg" proof against any sort of performance; but it needed relatively few of these defences in the representation that the members of the Deutscher Verein accomplished last night. They had, too, the aid of a part of the Pierian Sodality...
...readily be condoned when we remember that a flawless rendering of this delicately scored work is expected only from a few orchestras in the world, the conception of the conductor was one of thorough insight, and the playing of the men most creditable for its union of enthusiastic spirit with much genuine artistic finish and restraint. To vary the program, three pianoforte solos, beautiful and well-known pieces of Chopin, were performed by Mr. Moeldner '13, a pupil of Madame Hopekirk. Although in the first piece the left hand portion was a bit heavy, the Nocturne was played with real...
...Swayze '79 said one must remember that athletics are not a man's work and that the man who has studied carries away with him from College a spirit of industry and application which a mere athlete never acquires...