Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department of Government proposes to test the possibilities of the reading period by carrying it out as fully as possible in the spirit of the original recommendation to the Faculty by the Division of History, Government, and Economics. This Division has been something of a pioneer in combining tutorial and course instruction and its Departments may fittingly experiment rather more thoroughly than others with the complete cessation of course instruction except, as provided in the Faculty vote, in courses open to Freshmen. There will be in the Department of Government an equally complete cessation of tutorial conferences...
This decision is based on the principle of retroactivity, the new law having been passed in January, 1926, and made effective as from 1917. It was this procedure that the Supreme Court judges held contradicted the spirit of the constitution. Moreover, the President, Senor Lombardo held that the penalties were tantamount to confiscation (forfeiture without payment) and were therefore unconstitutional...
...intended moral of such noble statements as. "In New Haven one is often on the same terms with one's janitor as with one's rooms-mate." And one might try for hours to decipher the meaning of such a magnificent collection of words as "the substance of the spirit of revelry rampant." The results, however, of all these diversions could scarecly be worth the efforts required. No one over attempted to rationalize Jabber wocky...
...body; in such numbers, in fact, that to cross the floor was a suicidal undertaking. Only at a Harvard party can one behold girls who are known to one's family shining in an atmosphere at once Rabelaisian and refined, overlooking the form and enjoying the substance of the spirit of revelry rampant...
...find, not necessarily reenforcements, but encouragement and warning. As the plan now stands students may be granted tutorial aid in some cases, but the general tendency is in the opposite direction. Should each individual receive satisfactory guidance all will be well; on the other hand if the spirit of rigorous independence rules absolute, the casualties will increase...