Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lack of spirit, did I say? Spirit, in the language of the barracks and of the dormitories and the language of these is quite similar), is nothing but a four-letter word meaning intestinal fortitude, an ugly little word known as "guts...
...Apparently the spirit of old Harvard is not what it was. It is true that the Harvard football authorities themselves did away with the traditional football rally, but did so because in the past two years the Harvard Crimson, which is supposed to express undergraduate sentiment, has scoffed at the idea of undergraduate rallies on the eve of the Yale game...
...Obviously the undergraduate body is not united, and it is my humble opinion that its lack of interest is not because of Harvard indifference, but because of lack of spirit on the part of the undergraduates...
...Harvard team had as little spirit and as little pride as some of the undergraduate body at Harvard, Yale could crawl to victory on its hands and knees. Fortunately for Harvard's pride, however, that...
...Martini. People who have never poisoned their bodies with alcohol will find in this film, written by John Thomas, a highly immoral presentation of what happens when a young U. S. femme goes to the Ritz Bar. The furnishings of that bar, human and material, and the somewhat flippant spirit of a father who has been abroad so long he does not recognize his daughter, permit a situation in which probably for the first time in cinema history a good young man is smacked when he tries to correct the morals of a bad young...