Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard playing and high spirit marked the Jayvees last year and this year looks to be about the same. Chief Boston runs the squad as he did last year and already it seems to have picked up the esprit de corps of past Boston teams. The strictest disciplinary measure they use at the blood pit is to keep offenders out of scrimmage...
These statements were his undoing last week. Under persistent questioning, Eisler finally admitted that he had joined the German Communist Party in 1926, that he had visited Moscow at least three times, that he had once been the guiding spirit behind the Comintern's "international bureau of music." The conclusion was obvious that, whether now or in 1940, he had perjured himself. The committee therefore ended its three-day show by demanding that the Department of Justice 1) prosecute the composer for perjury, and 2) start deportation proceedings against...
...help give Cal's commuters a campus spirit, Sproul sponsors monthly "University Meetings" in the gym or the Greek Theater. He invites V.I.P.s in education, sport, politics and military affairs to headline the bill (top drawing cards: Philosopher John Dewey, the late football coach Knute Rockne). Introducing a student leader who had just been disciplined for raiding the Stanford campus to steal the traditional "Axe" before the Big Game, Sproul remarked at one meeting: "You all know Don McNary, who has represented this university officially many times and unofficially at least once." That sort of indulgent presidential view...
...just two centuries after Frederick succeeded to the throne of Prussia, superb German armies were flanking the Maginot Line and swiftly conquering France. Their spirit and their motive were still, to an almost incredible degree, the same as Frederick's in his great campaigns...
Ever since a strike of Moslem students in 1912, chapel attendance at A.U.B. has been voluntary, but Christian, Moslem and Jew often worship together at the university services. When the spirit moved him (and in 25 years it often did), Bayard Dodge preached sermons to his students, could quote from Koran as well as Scripture. Dodge is proud that A.U.B.'s melting-pot of 50 nationalities and 20 religions has never boiled over...