Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BARONDES Hollywood, Calif. ' Sir: I nominate, not for Man of the Year but for man of the era, Albert Schweitzer. He has taught us anew that man does indeed live by the spirit, and that we can all live purposeful lives in an age which Spengler, Toynbee and Sorokin have characterized as decadent...
...When the spirit moves him, Montreal Sculptor Robert Roussil, 24, does not fuss around with preliminary sketches; he snatches up hammer & chisel and attacks the raw material as it stands. Last summer he saw an oddly shaped tree, a tall pine with a forked trunk, and the spirit moved. By the time all the chips had fallen, Roussil had an impressionistic piece sculptured in the totemic form: a father standing in front of a kneeling mother holding a child. He called it Family Group...
...became a first-rank university almost at birth. As its grey, Gothic-style buildings sprang up on Chicago's dreary South Side, notable minds had nocked to it: Philosopher John Dewey, Economist Thorstein Veblen, Archeologist James Henry Breasted. It was a place of exciting research, fired by the spirit of scientific inquiry and by the yeasty pragmatism of John Dewey. "The result is wonderful," exclaimed William James in 1903. "A real school and real thought. Here [at Harvard] we have thought, but no school. At Yale, a school, but no thought. Chicago has both...
...Sweaty exorcists are having less and less success . . . at the self imposed job of routing students out of their dormitories to burn red fire in the Square and mutter gibberish in unison the night before a so-called big game." The Daily News as right, for it has been spirits not spirit that have typified football weekends in the past two decades. Before the Yale game in the year of the News article the Harvard Provision Company advertised special scotch for the big game at $2.89 a fifth. A Crimson of the early '30's reported that "Today's Yale...
...Student Council Committee on Education is trying to figure out why Concentration Dinners sometimes appeal and other times fizzle. Having proved a success in a few Houses they should be encouraged as one of the best ways to bring back the spirit that moved Edward S. Harkness to build the Houses along the River...