Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...undue influence in the attack on Princeton. I have, I regret to say, played on Harvard teams when I blushed at the unfair play of the men next to me on the Harvard side, and if the attempt is made to eliminate every man of a mean spirit from every college team, I am humbly of the opinion such attempt is hopeless...
...Codman's letter on the foot ball controversy contains some criticisms of Harvard's recent action which are undoubtedly just, yet as a whole the spirit and tone of his remarks show such a misunderstanding of our present attitude that a formal reply seems necessary...
...Tompkins, of the '84 Yale eleven speaks as follows of the present Yale team: "Yale is all right behind the rush line, but in the line she is weak. The players are lazy and do not go forward with the vim and spirit which has characterized the work of Yale in previous years...
...authority and to teach from divine inspiration, began to doubt his own position. The agony of his soul's struggle we can but faintly understand. At the end of it he was no longer the champion of reason and religious individualism but their greatest defamer. It was in this spirit that he urged the persecution of the peasants, and disputed with Zivingli at Marburg concerning the Eucharist. There was something naively terrible in the vehemence with which he devoted himself to contending with his old followers...
...crowd beneath shouted "Cheer him!" The cheer was given and under its inspiration the man regained his foot hold. There were some men on Jarvis field, about half after four last Saturday who recalled this fact in bitterness of heart. Why was it that our first reverse broke the spirit of the men who were there to cheer for Harvard? But the serious part of the matter is the fact that many men are now ready to tear up their tickets for Springfield because of Saturday's defeat. Just because of that defeat, we ought to send an immense Harvard...