Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this spirit meek and lowly...
...rubber game between our Nine and the Lowells, played last Saturday, was extremely unsatisfactory, and gave the Lowells an opportunity of showing a mean and cowardly spirit that was contemptible...
...sort of an unofficial celebration, which should serve as a nucleus for spreads, and as a neutral meeting-ground, where the squabbles of the past six months might be forgotten. The representatives of certain sections of the class, however, did not see fit to take this petition in the spirit in which it was laid before them. For reasons best known to themselves, they declined to see in it anything more than a revival of the sectional feuds which it was really intended to allay; and, instead of coming forward to sign it in a friendly spirit, as they were...
...behalf of the College we would thank the Nine and the Crew for the self-denial and public spirit shown by them in giving up their vacation for the sake of the interest which they respectively represent, and in spending the week in hard work. The record of the Nine, which we publish in another column, shows that already their efforts are being rewarded; and the Crew's prospects of success seem to have been much improved by the faithful practice which they have been taking twice a day, while the rest of us were enjoying our short rest...
...fair exponent of old-time fanatical asceticism the curious reader is referred to an editorial which appeared not long ago in the New York Times, wherein is manifested a spirit which would do credit to Cotton Mather himself. The Faculty of Dartmouth might, of course, if it chose, prohibit its students from wearing plaid suits and high collars, electing Spanish, or eating Limburger cheese after sundown, and a sensible person would only smile and draw his own private conclusions as to the sanity of that august body; but when a respectable journal, making comments on Harvard and Yale, sets itself...