Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SPRINGFIELD, MASS., October 1--Coach Paul Stagg will send his Springfield College Maroons into the Harvard game tomorrow in fine physical condition and in fighting spirit. "With an extra week's practice the team has developed a smoothness lacking in last week's game," he said today...
...things considered, one can take pleasure in the fact that the squad is developing fast in fundamental play, while mentally keen competition looks to develop a little fighting winning spirit...
...sitting to the right and left of you today will not be here to graduate with you three years hence." But anyone who attended the introductory courses in the Law School yesterday morning must have been startled and abashed, and tempted to wonder at the new spirit of sweet reasonableness that pervaded the air. "Gentlemen," the new students were told. "You are a group of carefully selected applicants to the Law School. By a new system of assaying the legal aptitude of men before they enter school, it is possible to predict that all of you possess the capabilities...
Secondly, the tone of the whole journal is in a sense too academic. A little more fighting spirit, a little more pointedness in the aspirations appears to me more in the style of youth than a too correct imitation of the best manners of the academic "mama and papa." Should an issue be devoted to one important topic with conflicting viewpoints, this fighting spirit would come automatically...
...three segments of it studied by history, government and economics. Here again the Guardian seems to be an unduly obedient follower of the incidental divisions established by older generations. For such a "traditionalism" they are to be commended, but too great a traditionalism leads to stagnation and lifelessness. A spirit of independent innovation, even a little revolutionary initiative, appear to me more in a style of a magazine of the youth than a too correct imitation of the Academic Emily Posts...