Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...totally different team in spirit and aggressiveness from last week's slow seven, the University hockey team started its final week of preparation for the first Yale game by defeating the substitutes 3 to 1 in a short scrimmage in the Arena yesterday. The rink was shortened to the size of the New Haven Arena, which handicapped the men to a great extent and Coach Winsor stated that he did not expect brilliant playing for a day or two because they would have to change their game to meet the limitations of the smaller rink. He commended their excellent work...
...other nation. Let us hope that this particular manifestation of childishness will not be seen tonight. Our country is at an acute crisis. It cannot afford to make enemies, even in a way apparently so unimportant. Our Canadian opponents should be greeted by a large crowd in an enthusiastic spirit of friendly rivalry...
...favor, by the grace of that refinement if culture for which Southerners of position have ever been famous. It is false to assume that the material problems of reconstruction after the war ever obscured from the minds of the most intelligent Southerners those things of the mind and the spirit which make for the most enduring growth. On the contrary, possessed of a great tradition in education, they have clung to it firmly...
...people are newly turning their faces to the light of education. There has been a great increase in the numbers of students enrolled in the high schools. University extension work and summer school courses are attracting widespread attention. It is bot a matter of numbers alone. in the spirit of these students, there is also a new eagerness, remarked not only in the lower grades but more particularly by the presidents of Southern state universities. Reports of signal developments come, for instance, from such a university as that of North Carolina, which perpetuates a distinguished tradition as the first state...
...spirit of industrial, as well as military, preparedness has also been given an impetus at Yale. Professor Breckinridge, of the Sheffield Scientific School, has made the following statement in regard to helping the Government in its scientific experiments...