Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sept. 25: "All of us ... must take off our hats to the defenders of the Polish capital. . . . The kind of bravery shown by these soldiers in their capital city gives your own spirit a certain lift...
...that time the Teachers' Union charged that the Administration had violated the "spirit and the letter" of the newly adopted tenure system, a charge reiterated by PBK. The new Faculty rank system was adopted in principle by the Administration last Spring on the recommendation of the Committee of Eight...
...national industrial mobilization plan relies in large measure on a spirit of cooperation, and Colonel Rutherford bestowed high praise on the attitude of American industry toward the industrial war plans of the government. The response to preliminary field studies and surveys by the War Department "has been a splendid tribute to the patriotism of American industry," he wrote. "A spirit of wholehearted cooperation has prevailed which has made the work of organization a stimulating force to the officers of the army responsible for industrial contacts...
Throughout his discussion Mr. Ross assumes that responsibility for Harvard's appointment policy rests upon President Conant alone. The assumption seems to be correct. It is clear at least that this policy differs at many points both in spirit and in method from that suggested in the report of the Committee of Nine. Though it is true that President Conant may find partial support in the Committee's recommendations, any insistence upon citations from the report can only make clearer that however admirable in substance, it was in form and in timing a political blunder of the first magnitude. Looking...
Although the war in Europe has placed a burden upon the present college generation--especially upon the freshmen--we must not allow it to crush us to the earth. We must not permit the "tonight be merry for tomorrow we die" spirit to ruin our academic careers. A full liberal-arts education is still for the having if we desire it strongly enough. Most important of all, we must have widely educated men if civilization is to go on. In this military era, scholars as well as governments can and must be militant...