Word: spurred
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trial the new system should work to perfection. It should certainly be accorded a fair trial before it is atterly condemned; if, after that trial, it proves inefficient, there will be time enough then to decry it. Young men are far too apt to find fault on the spur of the moment where no material fault lies; and college men most of all, perhaps, are prone to demand more than is their due. It certainly will not be amiss if the present system be allowed a little more time in which to show its good points as well...
...slowly dividing; out of these political distinctions, social ones are growing. Then, too, the contact of the Negro with the white races has furnished reconstructive forces which have done much in developing the Negro character. An important influence of the education of the Negro is found in the spur which it has applied to the white people of the South. He is susceptible of as much education, development and improvement as the white, and the educated Negro is pushing the white race and slowly abolishing the race line. The Negro has always gone forward, even in the time...
...country and it is equally true as Mr. Lodge stated, her shield bore these matters and not one of them was a special invitation to either political party. It would hardly be too severe to call it sacrilege to use that grand hymn of Harvard nobility to spur political enthusiasm. Fair Harvard is the inspiration of a wider feeling than campaign semi-truths an inspiration that will be the same when the questions of the present have been chilled by one party or another...
Hour examinations would of necessity be a spur to the habitual loafer, and would certainly raise the standard of college work at large...
...secured. Communications and an occasional editorial written on a topic of live interest and front page articles on athletics or other subjects of interest, will be ample tests of a man's abilities. The freedom and openness of the competition, far from deterring men from writing ought to spur them on to do their best work. The magaging editor of the CRIMSON will be glad to receive all communications and to furnish all further information necessary...