Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Government ownership is unconstitutional and foreign to the spirit of our institutions..- D. A. Wells, H. R. Misc. Docs. 73, 42 Cong., 3d session...
...which is now before the athletic committee. This petition asks for permission to play against professional teams. In order to remove all obstacles to the success of our Nine, this last relic of an ill-advised system of restriction, should be swept away. We ask this not in a spirit which "gets an inch and wants an ell," but because we deem it to be essential to the best interests of our Nine. Should this second petition be granted, we think the committee will never have reason to regret its action...
...made a short address, pointing out that the value of the Christian church is not in the fact that it acts often as a sort of moral police, but rather because its true object is to bring to light the truth. The church has more than once adopted the spirit of condemnation and has failed; the spirit of approval of things that are excellent can alone give permanent strength to Christian organization. The service closed with the singing of Pflenger's anthem, "How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord...
...often; and yet there seems to be no other way of bringing about this needed improvement except by continually harping upon it. We are assured from reliable sources that. provided the innovation were voted, the money for it would be forthcoming, a fact which simply proves that the conservative spirit common to all great institutions, and particularly powerful at Harvard, rather than a lack of funds seems to be the cause of our losing to some extent, the library privileges. The system of borrowing reserved books, excellent though it may be, is, nevertheless, but a makeshift, and in comparison with...
...Parker, in his "Mediaeval Symphony" has caught successfully not only the spirit of the old romances he clothes again with words; but the ryhthm of language necessary to suggest the movement of a symphony. These sentences of musical prose are really delightful...