Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the most helpful nonadministrative group connected with the educative process on the college campus today are the fraternities. By fostering school spirit, extracurricular activities and social functions, they help develop latent qualities of leadership and help broaden students' personalities...
...Stapledon, might bring about earthwide luxury and ease. But the effort should not be made, said Dr. Stapledon (who, for a scientist, is something of a moralist*); from such low motives. The only respectable and sufficient motive would be to stimulate and diversify the growth of the human spirit. The hardy, high-stepping Martians, the heat-resistant Venerians, the squat, four-legged Jovians and Saturnians with their triple proboscises-all would contribute, Dr. Stapledon thinks, to the spiritual growth of the U.S.S. (United Solar System...
...illustrating the decline of domestic life, it goes in for some pretty childish and cheesy spoofing. The interpolated vaudeville show is not on the whole a very good show or a very good idea. It does not seem quite consistent that Love Life -which so deplores the modern spirit of commercialism and greed-should itself be the stage equivalent of a double feature...
...spirit of international conferences should be that of a showdown poker game, not of a court of inquiry: You turn a card, and I will turn a card, rather than upsetting the table and calling you a fraud. While the Russians propose control of atomic energy, our response cannot only be that Bernard Baruch already has offered a fine plan which you nasty people ruined, so that you are clearly not making your offer in good faith now. If this is the adamant attitude of the West, the Russians can counter legitimately (from a point of pure logic) that...
Details were the keynote at Soldier's Field yesterday, but one could sense the steadily rising tension and spirit as the Varsity worked through everything from signal drills to place-kicking...