Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are signs of change in the Harvard Monthly besides its new form. It is nearer the normal magazine in shape; its decorations have grown more seemly; but that is not all. The October issue shows an excellent and largely successful attempt to achieve the live yet dignified spirit of a good monthly review. Quite evidently the Monthly is through, for a year at least, with being a literary safe-deposit vault. Under the new board it appears bent on emerging from those purple shades where the pleasant but inconsequent art of canning the "best literary product of the University...
...production. The book reviews are below the Monthly's average. They do not touch books worth review, and they are inconclusive as well as over-lengthy. One editorial sets squarely before the University the blight which the Freshman dormitories threaten--a College of mob-driven athletics and "class spirit." The other, under the rather surprising through flattering title, "Shall Harvard Menace Neutrality?" puts that reputed difficulty before us about as clearly as such an absurd possibility can be demonstrated...
...bulk of the undergraduate contributions are evenly divided between essay, sketch, picture, story, and verse. Mr. B. P. Clark's "Fancies" is an excellent example of the new freedom in verse that is opening up much inner spirit, even though it sacrifices part of the poet's charm. "The Copper Duke," by Robert G. Dort, has not enough atmosphere or excitement about it to make a banal invention into an exhilarating plot. Mr. Skinner's "Courtesy of War," a sketch of a French village in war time, has more cultured ease in the telling than the subject can stand...
From the addresses of the President, the Dean, and the other speakers the new members of the University can imbibe their first taste of its spirit and a knowledge of its workings that is sure to be of great value to them. They are entering a field of endeavor that is entirely new to them and they are certain to profit by the words of advice and instruction they will receive at tonight's meeting...
...dormitories gravely emphasized the cleavage in the undergraduate body between those favored by the gods as to worldly possessions and social position and those who were not; and thus did grave injury to the College. The administration of Mr. Lowell, deeply impressed with the lack of a cohesive class-spirit, the continual breaking up of classes into cliques and groups, which hardly knew each other, and were about in the frame of mind to regard each other as enemies, found that it was not necessary for the College to sit by helpless and do nothing to counteract the evil tendency...