Word: spiritless
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...sometime after this the play was rather spiritless until Austin secured another touchdown after a run of nearly half the field, the most brilliant play of the game. No goal was scored from this touchdown owing to its distance from the posts...
...have been greatly improved if they had been accompanied on the piano. The jodeling of Mr. Dorr as usual took the audience by storm, and his "Calliope" was received with even greater enthusiasm. Mr. Dunham's piano solo met with an appreciative reception. With the single exception of the spiritless rendering of the college songs, the concert may be said to have been one of special excellence. After the concert there was dancing in Memorial Hall...
...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...
...going to bed before midnight. And if prayers come before seven, they will have little more than six hours for sleep. If there is any good reason for the proposed change, the desires of the students will hardly affect it; but if, as seems probable, it is only a spiritless revival of a bygone custom, a well signed petition may very probably accomplish its end. We would suggest, then, that students interested in the matter should start a petition for keeping the hours of recitation throughout the year as they at present...