Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...yesterday by defeating Andover in a close game. The Freshman season is short and every day bears directly on the final result. Teams which are handicapped by men who occasionally fail to report are uniformly failures. Give the coaches the chance they desire, believe in the ability and the spirit of your own team, support it as often as possible by your presence on the field, and it is highly probable that your Freshman team will win victories for the class...
...good citizens, there can be no doubt that student regulation of student activities is not only desirable but necessary. And if student government is practicable anywhere, it is practicable in Harvard. The variety of interests, the lack of petty jealousies, the cosmopolitanism, that very "indifference" and "lack of college spirit," which consists of having one's own opinions on collegiate as on other matters,--in short, all those qualities which make our University great as opposed to provincial insure the success of any well launched scheme of undergraduate self-government...
...creating a Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University undertakes to do its share in meeting what is believed to be a growing need for efficient and systematic business training, and it plans this service to the community in the spirit which animates its general scheme of professional education...
...verse of the number aside from "The Jester" certainly belies the title of the latter. It is all very serious, not to say solemn. In "The Modern World," Mr. Wheelock dreams of a day "when Socialism, like another Christ, shall shatter the old world," and in an "Epilogue" his spirit reels, "Drunk with a defiance stronger than the tyranny of death!" In Mr. Miller's "The Aged Poet's Soliloquy" a bard of seventy-five long years grieves that men shall never know the richer veins of gold that lay below the inmost marvel of his poet's heart...
There are good lines in all these pieces, but the combination would have been greatly helped by at least one poem in lighter vein, more in consonance with the spirit of youth...