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...whole to introduce a rejuvenated college spirit into Dartmouth. After several poor seasons on the gridiron, the diamond and the track, and concurrent with the disillusionment and flight of hope that naturally accompanies a period of economic despair, the college felt that its life-blood was being sapped and its spirit was falling into the doldrums...
...issue is more than educational; it is the fundamental one of whether the masterworks of the past are documents, to be classified, analyzed in the post-mortem manner, of the laboratory, or "the precious life-blood of a master-spirit treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life", a life of which we may gratefully partake to augment our own substance. The signs are everywhere decipherable that the universities and critics of today have the sickness of an acquisitive society of the intellect; they need to be more respectfully, curiously inquisitive before the monuments to the past. English...
Traditions. What are they? What do they mean? Are they the effete practices that thin-blooded men of degenerate stock use to bolster their sense of defeated pride? Are they outworn customs fit only for academic discussions? Are they part of the life-blood of the Nation? What are they, and are they worth following...
...large amount of support is received by American universities from endowments, and therefore to turn down a $600,000 offer often means cutting into the very life-blood of the university, but Harvard refused the money on a good principle and one well worth following by other educational institutions in the country. Today Dr. Mears's system of teaching eugenics is probably one of the best. but tomorrow it may be one of the worst. Harvard did not want to take the chance. The stanford Daily
With little ostentation they have convened for the erecting of permanent political machinery. And in view of the continued accumulation of opposition, their sanguine persistence seems almost unjustified. At the convention just held, the Progressive movement lost its life-blood--the support of the Railroad Brotherhoods and of the Socialists...