Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...good pitching of Stillman and Clarkson, and by the bunching of hits in the fifth and sixth innings, the University nine won a fairly well played game from Lafayette yesterday, the score being 7 to 0. The team played with good spirit, and batted well when hits counted, but throughout the game there was a marked tendency to knock high flies. Stillman, in the first four innings, did not allow a hit and gave but one base on balls. His good work was somewhat marred by a wild pitch which advanced a runner to third base in the second inning...
...first open performance of the Greek play was given very successfully before a large audience last evening. The actors were easy and natural in their parts, and the choruses were sung with even more spirit and precision than on Monday night. The final performance will be on Friday night...
...about anything that happened here before, say, 1885; except, perhaps, that John Harvard died in time to found the first college in America, leaving it his name and a few books. Under the circumstances, is it remarkable that we have at times been accused of a lack of college spirit? The University is too large, now, for one man to be familiar with the whole of it, so surely the next best thing is acquaintance with its past history, an acquaintance close enough to give its possessor a feeling of pride and loyalty obtainable in no other...
...places. When he returned, he gathered his impressions in an essay published in the most widely read review, and condensed his opinions on American universities as follows: 'The American universities are of unequal value; some are simply humbug. They are all typically American, illustrating in every respect the American spirit: they have an essentially practical purpose. The American wishes to see quick returns in facts and successes; he has scarcely ever any comprehension of theory and real science. He has not yet had time to understand that scholarly truth is like a beautiful woman, who should be loved and honored...
...spirit of summer vacations and of seashore reminiscences, sentimental and otherwise, seems to pervade the Advocate which appears today, although the stories are mostly of that type with which we are quite familiar...