Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...club system," will probably charter one of Blakey's shells for their private use; so we may expect to see before long a "gentleman-six" on the Charles. To speak of the Fencing Club and the Pigeon-Shooting Club is but to mention other phases of the same spirit of progress. But the greatest advance we have yet noticed in this direction is the organization of a Philosophical Society. Debating societies and associations for the critical examination of heliotypes are all very well in their way; but here we have something that develops the finest powers of the mind, something...
...which we had in mind. We said that there are men in college who show in an offensive and silly way their complete independence and their hostility to popular prejudices. We have heard them express their contempt for social success, and declare the whole college is imbued with the spirit of toadyism. But when we contrasted their present views with the opinions they entertained when they came to college, we could not help recalling the instructive fable of the fox and the grapes...
AFTER the mongrel day which '77 endured last year, and in view of recent sinister criticism of the "new regime," it behooves the present Senior class practically to demonstrate next June that its class spirit has not been destroyed by the elective system, and that it is willing to unite all its forces in getting up a joyous Class...
...Unlike the Harvard match, there was a noticeable lack of the friendly and gentlemanly spirit which characterized that contest. From the beginning to the end of the game on Saturday, there seemed to pervade the Yale-men a desire to injure and "lay up" our players on every occasion when there was no chance of detection. We were in hopes of playing against gentlemen when we met Yale, but they sadly disappointed us, for their conduct throughout closely resembled that of pugilists, their chief object being, apparently, to win the game by foul or fair means. We do not make...
...hear some acute observer of society assure you that his classmate Fawn is a toady, that he does everything for policy, and that he has fallen in with the social customs which are undermining all the manhood of this college. It is no less edifying to hear some philosophic spirit pronounce social success a bubble which men are foolishly pursuing, and confidently declare that complete independence is the only position that can be taken by a man who has any self-respect. When this frank philosopher assures us that, whatever others may do, he will not "crook the pregnant hinges...