Word: spiritless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be called to fill the professorships in our great universities, and indeed will come to supersede men as teachers and investigators in many branches of study. "As a rule," he says, "the old style teaching of languages, history and literature by men has always been mechanical, unsympathetic, spiritless, or in its more strenuous forms merely pedantic, compared with that new and higher type which the native enthusiasm and conscientiousness and insight and teaching gifts of trained women are certain to bring about in the near future." He speaks of "the atrocious text-books and scholastic methods" of the past...
...some unsteadiness arising from want of effectual practice, and from the absence of a spirit of confidence which can be acquired only by continua and spirited contests. Oftentimes our men do not seem to play to win, and become easily rattled. The cause is readily found in the spiritless practice and simple batting upon the field...