Word: soule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This balmy spring weather is entering the Vagabond's soul. And in the past few days he has embraced the conviction that it is also getting the better of most of the professors hereabouts. Those Saturday classes which are given only at the pleasure of the instructor have vanished like the March winds. Sever on Saturdays assumes the hollow emptiness that has settled upon the Spanish Imperial Palace of late days...
...always lose. He wandered up to the Treasure Room and found only two students talking in an excessively loud tone about the rate of subway fares out to Dorchester. Coming out of Widener he espied University Hall and a bright shaft of hope entered the barren wilderness of his soul. The publicity office. They might tell him something of interest. But in response to his query for news he received only a vague release to the effect that one close to the President had nothing to say. Things had come to a pretty pass...
...monument (Yale's new library) will indeed remain through the centuries as a memorial to the character of its builders. For ages it will unmercifully reveal their soul. It will tell the story of American wealth and academic culture of the earlier twentieth century. Skyscrapers narrate only a part of the story; in a generation they must give way to others, and in their mortality lies their smallness. The Yale library will not give away, and historians, philosophers, and sight-seers in five hundred years will reconstruct the America of our day form its venerable stones...
...outside world Spain is the only country in Christendom that has devoted herself, at the cost of everything that is modern, decent and enlightened, to the preservation of her romantic soul...
...decided is whether the account of an eyewitness or that of one whose knowledge is secondhand, will be the accepted one. It is true that Byrd's book "Skyward", in which he relates his various flights, leaves little room for doubt as to who was the center and soul of the moments that arose, and even impress the careful thinker to take portions of the book with a great deal of salt...