Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...modified as to do away with all objectionable features. Harvard has taken the lead in abolishing many barbarisms of the past. She has dealt death blows to hazing and other forms of brutality. Why? Because Harvard men have realized that such practices are degrading, that the spirit that prompts them is meanness and cowardice. The men most eminently fitted for hazing was the "thug." Of course, there were many very admirable men that took part in hazing, but they were carried along by public opinion. It is to athletics, principally, that is due the credit for the newer and manlier...
...reopening of school, of working under Harvard instructors, and of study in the College Library. In returning to their work in the fall they spread through various parts of the country Harvard methods of instruction and, it is to be hoped, something of Harvard's aims and spirit...
...NICHOLS, Pres.CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.- The monthly missionary meeting of the Christian Association will be held next Thursday evening at 6.45 in Holden Chapel. Subject: "The True Spirit;" John III: 16. Leader, H. K. Stanley '97. All members of the University are invited to be present. The semi-annual election of officers will be held on Thursday evening, January 28. The officers to be chosen are a president, three vice-presidents, a recording secretary, a treasurer, and a librarian. All nominations should be sent to J. E. Gregg, chairman of the committee on nominations, before January...
...NICHOLS, Pres.CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.- The monthly missionary meeting of the Christian Association will be held next Thursday evening at 6.45 in Holden Chapel. Subject: "The True Spirit;" John III: 16. Leader, H. K. Stanley '97. All members of the University are invited to be present. The semi-annual election of officers will be held on Thursday evening, January 28. The officers to be chosen are a president, three vice-presidents, a recording secretary, a treasurer, and a librarian. All nominations should be sent to J. E. Gregg, chairman of the committee on nominations, before January...
...Middle ages and those actuating the art of the Renaissance. Religious faith was the dominant note and the inspiration of mediaeval art; on the other hand, the art of the Renaissance reflected the freedom of though and the tendency to classicism of the Renaissance itself. Its spirit was essentially mundane and finally became, in imitation of the Greeks, a mere effort to depict physical beauty. The Italian antists, however, took the later Graeco-Roman period for a model rather than the classic Greek and in consequence took eventually a very artificial tone. In the fifteenth century this was less noticeable...