Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...School spirit in Hanover is still dragging its picturesque traditions out of their wartime hiding places. Great chunks of the student body are not sure whether Dartmouth is a "rah-rah" college or not; visitors who have watched a Big Green football rally, the freshman sophomore fight, or seniors ambling about in dark green jackets with their class numerals emblazed on the pocket are sure that...
...Pennsylvania Station and marched up Seventh Avenue playing Dartmouth songs to an appreciate wayside audience. They climaxed the event by tying up traffic in Times Square to the tune of Glory to Dartmouth," says the daily, calling the episode "possibly the best example of what is meant by school spirit...
Only a faithful handful of rooters showed up for the Holy Cross rally, and the team management decided to save "what little football spirit there is" for the Princeton and Yale tilts, rather than make the rallies "too routine" an institution...
...have always thought of Harvard University as an institution imbued with the spirit of the search for truth and with the seriousness of purpose of its students. In my first few weeks here as a graduate student, however, I have been impressed unfavorably with the great degree of rudeness displayed by students in large lecture halls towards the lecturer and their fellow students...
This was only one of the reasons why the spirit was high at the enclosed practice field yesterday. The Virginia scar was healing fast after the Crimson's comeback performance in the Stadium last Saturday, and most of the men bruised in that game were either fully recovered or mending quickly...