Word: soule
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...student who has any sincerity in his soul will see to it that he is not tainted with this smug spirit whose end is death...
...Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life," says Auerbach. It does a great deal more than that: it broadens and deepens the souls of men; it makes them see beauties in life and its emotions which the profoundest philosophy and even the finest poetry cannot call forth. And the extraordinary opportunities for musical culture which are afforded in this vicinity have always been one of the great assets of the University...
...soul of a college is football....The soul of Cornell has overcome the soul of Harvard, the soul of Princeton the soul of Dartmouth...Saturday, on Princeton sands, President Lowell's undecimal system will set its iron heel. Is the Nassovian or the Cantabrigian soul the mightier? The greatness of colleges is to be tested. The college soul is to be made visible."--New York Times...
...York Times is right--as far as it goes. Tomorrow Harvard's soul will be football and it will be tested. Football will prevail not alone on the Princeton gridiron, but here in Cambridge, and in the numerous Harvard clubs all over the country...
Because football is dominant for one day, however is no evidence that it is the single constituent of the college soul. There are hundreds of other days when the pursuit of knowledge is engrossing the minds of all. The soul of a college is a complex thing embodying innumerable diverse elements. The class-room, the athletic field, lectures, concerts, fellowship, all contribute their quota. The soul can no more be judged from its manifestations of a single day than can a defendant in a law suit from the adverse testimony alone. Tomorrow Harvard's soul will be football...