Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cummings, noted licentiate of verse, has some fun with prose and prose ideas. Paul Green contributes a full-length play, Tread the Green Grass. There are eleven short stories (so called for convenience); 44 poems, and an essay by Critic Yvor Winters, The Extension and Reintegration of the Human Spirit through the Poetry, Mainly French and American, Since Poe and Baudelaire...
...Harvard team this fall has had a lot of bad breaks, and I do not think that the scores of the games are indicative of the strength of the team. I have watched them pretty closely this week on the field and off and they have built up a spirit, a morale that I don't think can be beaten...
Strangely for once a Boston audience seemed to warm up and get into the spirit of the piece. By the middle of the second act very nearly everyone in the house was hissing the dark sleek villain and wildly cheering the hero and his virtuous sayings. It was indeed an unlooked for pleasure to see spectators young and old clapping their hands in high glee in time with the music and stamping heavily on the accented beat. The atmosphere was extremely contagious, and few found it possible to stand aloof from the general merriment...
With the arrival of another Yale game on its bi-annual circuit to Cambridge the Vagabond feels the long departed spirit of youth creeping over him once more. It is the sort of thing that infuses a peculiar warmth throughout his windswept diggings high up in Memorial Tower and makes the fresh log on the hearth glow to a merry Crimson...
...that is all done with and belongs to the past. A season has gone into the shades and another emerges in all its pristine glory. The Vagabond the new era with rousing spirit and a new hope of festive occasion. For it is here...