Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...society has been unable to attract. Moreover, while the Sodality itself draws a distinction between the social organization and the orchestra, outsiders will not draw the same distinction, to the disadvantage of the orchestra. Discrimination against eligible men on account of race or religion is alleged and a spirit of dissatisfaction is the result. Such discrimination should not be tolerated for a minute in such an organization...
...facing a difficult situation. It had no sooner recovered from the loss of Captain Ayres and from unfortunate individual injuries, when this last bolt came out of a clear sky. If the team can get along for a few days on good wishes and undergraduate backing, such spirit should be accorded with full heart; and if the team emerges victorious at the end of the season, that team will be counted one of the bravest in the history of Harvard sport...
...expedition from Harvard and Technology has been organized, and will sail from New York next Saturday. It is estimated authoritatively that the members have one chance in three to come back alive. The men who have volunteered have not done so in any spirit of bravado or adventure, but with a full realization of what they will have to face. Another force of a hundred and fifty will be organized, and those who volunteer for it should remember exactly what dangers they are running, and what conditions they will meet...
Each member of the group realizes that they will be exposed to far more danger than if they were fighting in the trenches, for one bite from a louse, the vermin which carries the typhus, is considered fatal. The spirit and courage of the men who have volunteered to fight this pest which is now ravaging Servia, is, as Professor Sedgwick and others have remarked, nothing short of heroic...
Yesterday a letter from Professor Kuno Meyer, of the University of Berlin, to President Lowell was made public. The letter concerned the recent Advocate prize poem, "Gott Mit Uns," and censored both Harvard and President Lowell for fostering a "spirit of unmitigated hostility toward Germany. Professor Meyer characterizes the poem as "damnable," and states that Harvard has "silently connived at its wide circulation in the press." Harvard has "wantonly and wickedly gone out of its way to carry strife into the hallowed peace of the academic world," while the University and its President "stand branded before the world and posterity...