Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Perhaps the contribution that most completely achieves its purpose is the anonymous "Les Lauriers sont Coupes," a vividly remembered picture of childhood in Brussels, full of detail yet unified and effective. Of the stories, Mr. Plummer's "Full o' the Moon" catches the spirit of Irish legend, though the effort at Irish idiom is a trifle apparent; and Mr. Grant Code's "The Smile" places an old theme in an up-to-date Central American setting with considerable success. The articles on topics of the day begin with Mr. J. S. Watson's "Art and Artificiality," a not quite articulate...
Athletics we hear of only for a moment, in a sane little editorial on the "Amateur Spirit...
...presentation of a cup for greatest improvement in the field events, and the system of electing captains for the various departments may arouse the competitive spirit where it bears most fruit. That as great skill in the field events may be obtained by conscientious practice as by any natural aptitude has been proved in the last two seasons. Men with mediocre physical qualifications have developed into intercollegiate point winners. As the track team never has had at its disposal an abundance of field event material, more men with will-power and a desire to be athletic should specialize in some...
Only through the instrumentality of the Union can the spirit of the University spell democracy, and the sooner that common meeting ground becomes available for all students, the sooner will that spirit of democracy be realized. ELIJAH ADLOW...
...pursuance of artistic ideals. The market value of toil and ambition, of genius, of capacity for understanding, is what we are all most familiar with; so much so that it is easy to forget what the love of a task for itself really means. It is this amateur spirit that is cherished and guarded in our universities and schools. And it is this spirit that we, and especially those of us who have artistic ideals, should cherish and guard in our later life as the heritage of our undergraduate days...