Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...departures were made in he baseball practice yesterday, the work consisting as usual, of batting and fielding work, under the direction of coach Wendell. With the return of Coolidge and Carr, the infield played with considerably more spirit than it has previously shown this week, but a tendency to throw carelessly was very much in evidence...
...club-house, Winthrop Square, at 8 o'clock tonight. During the vacation the play was presented in Malden, Lowell, and at the Hollis Street Theatre, Boston, and as a result of the experience of these presentations the play is now running with more smoothness and spirit than on graduates' night. There will be a second Cambridge performance tomorrow evening and a third on Friday evening, May 1. Tickets for all three performances are on sale at Thurston...
...Freshman baseball team is now beginning to take definite shape. Throughout the season the men have shown commendable spirit and have worked hard, but considerable improvement will still be necessary in order to make a creditable showing in the Yale game...
...regular meeting of the Cercle Francais last night, "Le Barbier de Seville," by Beaumarchais was chosen for next year's play. This play, which was written in the latter part of the 18th century, is, in spirit, the embodiment of the French Revolution, as shown by the character of the Barbier. A departure from the plays given in the last two years is being made--the present piece being in prose, and of a very witty and pungent style. A great deal more acting will be required than in previous years. The chief difficulty lies in the part...
...that not a single instance of behavior should occur in our midst to act as an exception to the rule which should need no proving: that courtesy no less than intelligence is a part of our acquirement. That such incidents ever happen we should, attribute, not to meanness of spirit, but, rather to the carelessness of youth and to the very young man's desire soon to be considered mature, serious or buried in thought. It is his belief that, since it would be weak for him to make the first advance, it is better to rouse...