Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...fumbles, and the interference, ragged in the extreme against Boston College, showed a decided improvement. However, it is not that the development of the team has been advanced, although that is an achievement of great importance, but the fact that there has been such an amazing change of spirit which shows that the Eli eleven will fight all the harder to down Harvard and Princeton...
Almost 60 per cent of the Class of 1922 have not voted and the Class of 1923 has had great difficulty in getting its necessary quota of votes. This state of affairs is due to one of two causes. Either the members of these classes have no class spirit whatsoever and are too lazy to vote, or they have positive principles against casting their ballots. Surely the members of the first group can have no defense for their position. That sort of man only hurts Harvard. He is ready to receive an education from the college, while...
...third day of voting in both the Sophomore and Junior classes comes without the necessary sixty per cent vote being cast, in spite of numerous exhortations and appeals to class spirit, there is gradually coming over the College a realization that there is something wrong in our present system. This has found expression in two ways,-a condemnation of non-voters by their more enthusiastic (or perhaps only more conscientious) class-mates, and a naive reply of "Why should we vote when do don't know for whom we are voting...
...minutes after the final whistle had blown. Then he went to every member of his team and said, "It's all right, brother. You gave everything you had but it wasn't enough. They had the better team, that's all." And these players, showing the same spirit, walked up to their coach and said, "I'm sorry, Charlie, if I didn't do as much as you expected me to, but I sure did try the best I could...
...trust that you and my other fellow Republicans associated with you may bring to the consideration of all the questions involved in this campaign a spirit as much patriotic and practical, as academic and theoretical. Great reforms, if they are to be enduring, the products of patience, persistence and evolution, and I trust that the men enlisted in your club will carry their work and their pledges on beyond their undergraduate days and into the years which take them into the active and constructive upbuilding of American nationality. "Very sincerely, (Signed) "WARREN G. HARDING...