Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Eliot, in a speech on "College Spirit, Class Feeling, and the Social Aspects of the Dormitory Question," delivered in the Union last night, before a large audience, gave a clear statement of his grounds for opposing the system of class segregation in dormitories. He showed that class spirit at Harvard is broader than at any other college, and furthermore that there exists here something greater than class spirit, the general contemporaneous acquaintance, fostered by the present dormitory system...
...College spirit, said President Eliot, is the sentiment of gratitude, love, and respect for the institutions and acquaintances of the place where we, undergo very extraordinary mental changes; where we acquire a new set of powers, new faculties; these great changes being associated in our minds with the physical scenes, the natural or artificial beauties of our college. The college town is an inspiring remembrance, to be revisited with keen delight. College spirit is an inspiring motive which lasts through life, and is associated with two very common sentiments; the desire to be serviceable to one's country and kind...
President Eliot will speak tonight at 8 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union on "Class Feeling, College Spirit and the Social Aspects of the Dormitory Question." The speech will be of an informal nature and an opportunity will be given for questions from the floor...
...with selfish interest in his own affairs works on and cares for nothing, his college included, except his pencil and ruler, and books. Such men are well trained intellectually, but they possess but two dimensions. They have not learned how to tackle the world in the football spirit and fight for the honor of their ideal. Football, then, draws a man out of himself more completely than any other college activity, it absorbs him in a glorious ambition, and moulds him into a man of character...
...Princeton and Yale. Both teams were anxious to win, but a cleaner contest has never been played on a college football field. Having met and refuted all the arguments of our opponents, I wish to restate the three main contentions of the negative. Football creates a clean and wholesome spirit around which the student body can rally. In the second place it creates individual efficiency. At out final point, that football moulds character, our opponents have chosen to sneer, but they cannot present sound arguments which can meet this statement...