Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greeks recognized the need of some temporary escape of the human soul from the homely bounds of every day," he continued, "and in their theatre, in their great tumultuous plays that searched deep into the spirit of man, they provided this. A great moral lesson might be taught in a Greek play, but it was purely secondary, and was borne home to the mind only after long and careful consideration of the action. The feature of the Attic drama was its power of lifting the human soul out of itself, and causing the mind in a contemplation of spiritualities mightier...
...Laughter that is exultant and rejoicing is possible only to the untroubled spirit the Christian spirit...
...forth the corresponding Harvard view of Yale spirit and Yale religion would perhaps not conduce to the growth of Christian harmony and brotherly love. The appeal is to wholly different types of mind; but, as Mr. Ring Larder reminds us, some like them hot, some like them cold. Religion at Harvard and religion at Yale have this in common, that each is a natural growth of the habit of mind characteristic of the university. Yale's motto is "Light and Truth," Harvard's is "Truth" alone. Whether intentionally or not, the distinction appears to symbolize a difference in the Yale...
...quarter of the students in Harvard College are studying philosophy would seem to mean that very many Harvard men are deeply interested in the effort, be it formally religious or not, to find a meaning in life--or, putting it in a form perhaps more consonant with the Harvard spirit, to find out whether or not there are grounds for believing that there is a meaning in life...
...would seem to be mainly a matter of definition. Harvard long ago lived through the period of transition which Yale is painfully undergoing now. Yale men still lament the growth of Yale College into a university in which it is hard to preserve the old Yale unity and Yale spirit, but they have discovered no way to prevent it. Harvard met the difficulty by accepting...