Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order that the spirit as well as the letter of the literature requirement be adequately fulfilled. I recommend therefore, that the two classes of students be separated: that a new general literature course be organized to meet the requirements of distribution; and that courses now given be reserved for those students who are foolish enough to take them. The new course should be a general survey, presenting without outside reading, all the important aspects of American, English, Scandinavian, Italian, German, Spanish, Slovakian, Greek, Latin, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Jewish, Chinese, Japanese, Sanskrit, Irish literature. Mostly respectfully yours. H. B. Elkins...
...blood, brain and nerves); conceived an air-tight stove, a musical instrument, a submarine, a "mechanical carriage," a means of testing boats by models, a dock system, an air gun, a method of hydraulics. The last 28 years of his long life he turned to speculation on the human spirit, organized a code of conduct, pictured a continuous existence for the soul...
Friends made in the Young Men's Bible Class at his uncle's church abash his rusticity, put him in touch with the spirit of the time, to Succeed. They introduce him to drink, which he adopts moderately, and to Evelyn, an anemic young lost lady of the bars, whom he idealizes and takes unto himself with comparative propriety. Gaslit love* in a hall bedroom lasts until she gets a chance to go on the road with one of the immoral, new-fangled "leg-shows." Sam celebrates her departure with an attack of pneumonia that cancels his disgrace at home...
...truth in place of the rending whole. In spite of the unbending character of his hero, Arthur Train makes an interesting indictment of political chicanery. Although the great god of coincidence may be a trifle overworked, one nevertheless gets the distinct impression that justice is a some-what sottish spirit with a bald, perspiring head and an opportunely winking...
...British or the Boers or something and had a monument erected by your friends to commemorate the fact. Would it please you to have Mazie and her boy friend taking pictures with your monument for background? Your heroic bones would squirm in the final resting place and your spirit would sock some unsuspecting medium in the seventh veil. At least, if they wouldn't, you are not fit to be called a four hundred descent Bostonian...