Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wrote further, "The most serious problems which confronted the coaches and players at the beginning of the season were the elimination of faulty fundamentals on the technical side of the game and the upbuilding of a new spirit of hard work and rigid discipline on the moral side...
...questionable how the student body will be affected by the loss of the Brown game, but judging from the spirit of the players it is reasonably certain that the defeat will be a help rather than a discouragement. It has only served to quicken their perseverance and determination...
Captain Dadmun denounced the lack of support given the team by the class, but commended the spirit of those who attended the meeting. Coach Rollins gave a resume of the season to date, telling how the team had gone through its crucial test in the Exeter game and had only just found itself. He urged as many Freshmen as possible to make the trip to New Haven with the team...
...other astronomers assert, certainly exist, and Mr. Lowell's researches had the merit of being a positive and constructive theory concerning them, which he was willing to maintain against the world's denial. At all events, the observatory at Flagstaff remains, to be not only a monument to his spirit and his zeal, but to be also the lasting and the best means of demonstrating whether he was right or wrong. And in the last analysis, Mr. Lowell himself would have desired nothing more than that the clear Arizona air and the superb instruments which he provided there should find...
...granted by the undergraduate that Harvard is the supreme university in the country, and perhaps, if his maternal love goes so far, the first in the world. All men go to the football games and cheer that team which they have come to feel represents in some measure the spirit of the University. In the winning touchdown they are apt to believe they see the reason why Harvard is supreme...