Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WHITE, in his little pamphlet, sets forth three truths, which applied to Greek are as follows: first, Greek language should be taught rather than Greek grammar; secondly, it should be taught as a living rather than as a dead language, in the spirit of Greek rather than in that of English; and thirdly, it should be learned by observation rather than by rote, by principles rather than by rules, with intelligence rather than with blindness, and with pleasure rather than with pain. In short, Mr. White would have Greek to us a fountain of living waters and not a dead...
...while the spirit of the institution is unsectarian, and able ministers have gone from its walks into Roman Catholic, Congregational, Episcopalian, Baptist, and Unitarian churches, a positive and practical Christian influence is exerted upon the students; and one of the most learned, wise, and earnest men, the Rev. Dr. A. P. Peabody, is professor of Christian morals, and to all intents and purposes the chaplain of students and their adviser and friend...
...would be no longer true that distinctions conferred by the students are more prized than those conferred by the college. It would be no longer true that the most successful men in after life are not those who have been most successful during their college career. To discourage a spirit of ungenerous rivalry and to curb the impatience of a morbid ambition, is the noblest work of the higher education. This work Harvard not only does not advance, but even retards...
...music here. One writer gave as his reason for the lack of good music among us, the fact that we were shamefully lacking in energy, not merely in musical matters, but in everything that requires any effort whatever. It is the purpose of this article to ask - in no spirit of fault-finding, however - whether we must not consider the class of songs sung by the Glee Club in some degree accountable for the failure of that Club to give general satisfaction...
...exponent of music at college, sing the songs that its friends outside like best to hear? Even granting that the kind of music the Club now attempts is not too difficult, ought it not to confine itself exclusively to real college songs, - songs that breathe in every note the spirit of our life at Harvard, with all its picturesque manners and quaint customs? I think that we can all see the justice of this question. If our friends come to hear a college glee club sing, can we blame them if they prefer to hear such songs as "Nancy...