Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seventh, I have never heard a wet who was willing to discuss the question: Would prohibition be a good thing, economically and morally, for the country if it were well enforced? That, after all, is the real question. Why not consider it in an honest and scientific spirit? A good beginning may be made by reading Sir Josiah Stamp's address before the British Society for the Study of Inebriety on October...
...rate will have to pay an average of $.25 for the four extra meals or lose money. At current club or restaurant prices this is impossible or at least unhealthy. Those men not in a position to lose money are still penalized, a situation hardly in accord with the spirit of democracy supposed to be essential to the House idea...
...this institution is an actual fact, Harvard can not ignore it. Although it has no official connection with the university it is made up of a majority of Harvard men, and is a Harvard movement in spirit if not in fact. The final hope is for incorporation with the University as a graduate school, a fact which certainly should be considered when passing judgment on this project. The fortunate part of this revival is that it has happened while there is yet time to preserve the tradition of Harvard influence in the American theater...
...former piece one can only rejoice at its reappearance. It is by all odds one of the most successful of the Westerns with Gary Cooper capturing the spirit of Owen Wister's hero to perfection. Mary Brian is attractive if a trifle too sophisticated for a Vermont schoolteacher out to educate the younger generation in Wyoming. Needless to say Gary gets both his man and his girl and manages to make the whole story convincing...
...well known report on undergraduate concentration President Lowell pointed out that the emphasis should be on avocational or cultural rather than professional training. Economics gives a broad viewpoint on life when approached in a proper spirit, but it is to be feared that these figures in large part indicate at tendency toward premature vocational training which should not be encouraged...