Word: sprit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...class can be brought together and a sympathetic understanding established among them. There has been a spirit of good fellowship at the Junior dinner in the past that is seldom attained in such a large gathering of men, many of whose interests differ widely. The genuine old class sprit, which has now almost disappeared, revives at these dinners and each man feels that there is a common bond of sympathy between himself and his possibly unknown classmate...
...night's edition of a Boston paper there appeared an article severely treating a recent act of thoughtlessness on the part of a few Harvard students. In the edition of another Boston paper that act is treated in a more impartial and fairer light. We hope that the latter sprit of leniency is growing to be the one in which the press regards the college student. Any small undignified and indecorous act done by a student here is heralded all over the country, and, by the time it has reached the western payers, it has grown into an almost absurd...
...really small, but on the contrary are perilous and unhappy. Some sins come to us from a bad heart and thus leave us in a condition more susceptible to sin than before. Thus it is that there are two lives open to us. We must either live in sprit by loving God or live in the flesh, a selfish existence...