Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale to regulate the number of undergraduate activities in which a student may participate indicates that those responsible for the idea had no faith in the adage "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink." Furthermore, the ruling is quite in keeping with the spirit of the times, when apparently the entire nation has gone quite mad on the subject of regulating anything and everything. National Prohibition has passed; various states are trying to introduce into their legislatures bills to prohibit the smoking of cigarettes; the Postal Telegraph Company has been almost regulated...
...results have been unworthy of the material and the coaching. The poor showing, however, has not been due to lack of effort, but rather to lack of individual and collective aggressiveness. No one has been guilty of indifference, but almost the whole nine has failed to show the spirit of a winning organization. The near-informal team of last spring, although painfully weak in ability and defeated all but once, played with a spirit that would make the 1919 aggregation unbeatable. Very fortunately, the players themselves realize the cause of their poor record to date, and will show an entirely...
...last product of the effort of this University to help the government carry on the war for the last two years. The war has called for great efforts by everybody. Some of my friends have told me that they believe that there will be permanent benefit to the spirit of the country. History, however, shows that every great period of war has been followed by an age of materialism and selfishness. The Civil War was followed by the rise of Tammany Hall and the Tweed Ring. The Napoleonic Wars were followed by the growth of the factory system...
...military training. You have learned the need of self-sacrifice and co-operation. If we are to avert the danger of materialism, it will be due to your efforts. You men are to meet the greatest need and the greatest opportunity. It can be met only by a spirit of co-operation...
...class in the University has shown keen interest in backing athletics. The Freshman eight will accompany the University oarsmen to Annapolis tomorrow to meet the first-year boats of Princeton and the United States Naval Academy. There is but one thing that has made this a possibility, --the spirit of a class which has collected from its members the sum of $550 wherewith to send its crew to the Severn. Nor is this the first time that the Freshmen have shown interest in their major sports. At the climax of the hockey season they offered to supply the funds...