Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have spoken bluntly but sincerely, and I hope my remarks will be received in the same spirit...
These are among the methods by which Philips Brooks House is seeking toward its goal of service. But spirit can accomplish little without the flesh of genuine support. It must be granted that the ordinary undergraduate feels a certain desire to escape the memories of over-assiduous home-town charities and clubs, and that the less worthy, as well as the more worthy of these, wear the name of religion. Whether one approves or not, the contemporary attitude is distinctly not religious; and in the belief that P. B. H. is fundamentally religious, and therefore slightly emasculated, lies much...
...Harvard football game as a mere football game is a fault some of the blame might be traced to the football committee of which Mr. Jones is chairman and some of the other various committees of old grads. If these committees felt that the falling off of the "Yale spirit" is a real calamity they should have foreseen and forestalled...
...take any expert diagnostician to say that the "old Yale spirit as dead." They should have caught the spirit when it first was taken sick and administered restoratives or something Certainly they were in the strategic position to count the pulse of Yale and they should have been able to tell when it first showed signs of feebleness...
Whatever the reason for the "Decline in the Yale spirit" it might he just as well if the same decline would hit all of the colleges to a reasonable extent. This I suppose would sound sacrilegious to any old grad, but it would forestall the annual hullabaloo concerning overemphasis and the distortion of vales. Yale at the close of this season refrained from distorting a single value or tearing up a single goal post...