Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...comes word from the Pacific Coast that through the generosity of some wealthy citizens of San Francisco a hundred undergraduates of Leland Stanford have volunteered for a half-year's service in the war zone. It is not merely the number of the volunteers which is remarkable, but the spirit they have shown in heeding what is a universal call...
...with smoke. With feet on the table they often sit late into the night--just talking. Such talks start with gossip and either degenerate into questionable stories or develop into serious discussions of real problems. It is out of the latter sort of discussion that the greatest and inmost spirit of the American university life breathes...
...noted Indian poet, musician, educator and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1913, will speak at Tremont Temple, Boston, tonight. The subject of his lecture will be "The Cult of Nationalism." Tagore has been acclaimed by many as the greatest living poet. His writings reflect the romantic spirit of the East, and most of his poems are written to a weird moaning Rengali music, which he himself composes. He has translated many of his own works, among them his short stories in the writing of which many critics claint his greatest genius lies. Tickets ranging in price from...
...Yale team's fighting spirit places it in fourth place, the Brown defeat being the only mark against its record. Although the Army was undefeated, it was opposed by such weak teams that it is placed below Yale...
...spirit of the Class of 1919 in establishing a scholarship is worthy of the highest praise. However much in after life a class may be able to help the University which did so much for it, no gift can have the peculiar significance of one presented by undergraduates. College students as a rule are not burdened with too much money and their generosity forms a very vital sacrifice. The Class of 1918 was thoughtful in its gift of a sun dial. But more valuable than sun dials, or any other concrete work of art, is an aid which will bring...