Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...strengthening the university professors position the new association bids fair to promote a higher professional spirit and to give a basis for a wider appeal in questions of moment. Since there exists in this country no central educational organ such as the Minister of Public Instruction in European countries, the American university is for the most part, a separate educational unit, regarding what goes on within it as its own private affair. One other distinctive feature is the part played by the president, who, though checked by a number of forces is the centre of power. In view of these...
...striking characteristic of the present time is the urgency for action. Many nations, like China, are in a plastic condition. A spirit of nationalism and of racial patriotism is rising rapidly, with the consequent danger of the conflict of the non-Christians with the Christians. At the same time there has been a growth of the dangerous influences of the non-Christian world upon our own. Here again, it is our duty to prevent any continuation. But instead of having paganism to fight against, we must work against an objectionable form of syncretism and eclecticism. The taking of half-truths...
Originality, enthusiastically appreciated, reigned supreme at the Sophomore Play and "German" dinner in the Union last evening, the first affair of the kind in the history of the College. It was distinctly "1916's" evening, and the unmistakable evidence of class spirit was not the least important feature of the evening. The Living Room and the balcony were crowded to the doors. All the way from the "Sardellen-Broetchen" (half-course, not open to Freshmen) to the last fall of the blue-lettered "1916" curtain, it was a "strictly Sophomore performance," and within the same limits it was the most...
Moreover, men are only taken onto the Faculty of the University when they are too old to have that progressive spirit which is the foundation of healthy radicalism. This means that the institution becomes over-conservative," a deadweight .... around the necks of the American people." The student life also tends towards this ultra stand-patism. The sons of rich and influential families are too important in proportion to their innate worth...
...spring track practice yesterday afternoon. Before beginning actual work a meeting of candidates which filled the track-room and overflowed onto the stairs, heard the plans for the season outlined by Captain W. A. Barron, Jr., '14, and received brief general instructions from Coach Donovan. Captain Barron explained the spirit of enthusiastic determination and harmony which is absolutely necessary to the success of the team, and warned the men against the overconfidence which resulted in the loss of the Yale meet last spring. He urged candidates not to be backward in consulting the coaches about any trouble whatsoever which they...