Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...automatonism implies inevitability and consequent compulsion. How blind are they, therefore who would link a robot with the masterful beau geste which fills an entire blue book for the simple run of the thing. Only humanity in its most sparkling moments could produce so shining an example of the spirit "pour ie sport...
...this course borders somewhat upon my field of concentration I am taking today's exam merely out of the spirit of curiosity, and would you be so kind as to give me a grade?" Signed...
...purpose the splitting up of the undergraduate body, with the exception of the Freshmen, into a number of small social groups or "houses." Harvard realizes the fact that large institutions of our country trail far behind the smaller ones in their ability to stimulate social contact and "college spirit" in its full meaning. The project now under way calls for an expenditure of $13,000,000, the gift of Edward S. Harkness of New York City, to take the form of a group of self-contained buildings, each with its own sleeping, living and dining facilities. In this way some...
...other unsociable phenomenon of the present day. It states, "As strenuous exertion is followed by fatigue, so a violent moral effort, when the cause that produced it is removed, is succeeded by moral lassitude and therewith a turning of attention into very different channels. That this revulsion of spirit should be expected to follow peace is now recognized by those who have thought about the subject." It would appear to a judicial observer that the laxity of enforcement is itself one of the numerous results of this moral lassitude...
...Charles.... Tabulation will reveal the clothes philosophy of our young barbarians, the outward expression of their minds. Doubtless undergraduates of the college now proving itself so unworthy of them will rebuke its want of comity, its rebellion against one of the noblest forms of sociological effort and the spirit of uplift. In the language of its own discipline, it deserves a "public admonition." Answering of questionnaires should be made compulsory, at least to college professors, perhaps the largest producers. --New York Times...