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Word: spirits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...contagious spirit of fun and good fellowship pervades the whole play, and the audience caught the mood with an appreciation that encouraged the players to their best efforts. They were alert to take advantage of every passing opportunity to add to the general effectiveness of the play, and acted with case and naturalness, and sang with enthusiasm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pi Eta Play Well Received. | 4/27/1904 | See Source »

...practice outdoors until this week, and partly to the general listlessness among the men. The infielders, with the exception of the battery candidates, are careless in their fielding and their throwing is extremely inaccurate. Although the outfielders are doing good work in judging fly balls, they have not enough spirit and are especially slow in starting after the ball. Several of the battery candidates show promise of fair ability, yet they have not developed as satisfactorily as those in former years. The batting, as evidenced in the practice games of the last two days, is improving very slowly, since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First 1907 Baseball Game Saturday | 4/16/1904 | See Source »

Besides battery work in the cage and batting and fielding outdoors, work yesterday afternoon consisted of a long drill in base-running and in coaching runners from first and third bases. The men progressed satisfactorily considering the cold weather and worked with good spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL TEAM GOES SOUTH | 4/14/1904 | See Source »

...said, was late in appearance among the Greeks in the from of writing, although a constant oral interchange of ideas preceded it. A fine sense of discrimination and an ideal of artistic truth were developed in the popular mind at a period when Greek literature was most healthy in spirit and spontaneous in expression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecture by Dr. Butcher Last Night. | 4/12/1904 | See Source »

...Union has just completed its third year of official existence--a disappointing one to those who hoped with Major Higginson that it would "stand a temple consecrated to the spirit of large patriotism and true democracy." His and our high ideals have not been accomplished. No one is to blame; we are-all to blame. No particular person or committee can be censured above others. The fault has been general and it is the fault of unbusinesslike methods--almost lack of interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 4/7/1904 | See Source »

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