Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year Harvard rated an upset contender for third place at best. Barnaby explained that this year the team has "a deep morale" and "an excellent spirit." He added that "We exceed predictions...
...reservations reduce to cold assertions of male Harvard's self-interest. One Faculty member compares the merger rather coarsely to "a rich man marrying a poor girl--he had better be pretty sure that he's getting some spiritual benefits before he goes through with it." That spirit has been well hidden in the negotiations so far, but there is at least a chance that this spring the Faculty will not only set up committees to study a total merger, but also try to take the aura of inevitability off the idea...
Dedication is a familiar thing at Boston College, and the fine spirit of the Eagle basketball team is exemplified by guard Billy Evans. "Cousy represents everything I want to be as a man and a player," said Evans yesterday. He struck a subtle blow at the press when he added, "A pat on the head from Cousy after you make a good play means more than headlines...
...legal boundary to crime has not been crossed, the banditry is bloodless, the insult to the spirit is in the bandit leer of those grinning lips, the brazen talk, the courting, pawing, smoking, spitting-two paces away from the Passion of Christ. The insult is the triumphantly contemptuous expression with which the snotty brats have come to watch their grandfathers re-enact their forefathers' rites...
Innate Indifference. Original sin, in contemporary interpretations, is thus seen not as a stigma inherited from Adam but as a statement of the human condition-an idea that most Catholic revisionists defend as being well within the spirit of church teaching. Jesuit Henri Rondet, for example, says that original sin is "the ensemble of personal sin of men of all times." Dutch Theologian Ansfried Hulsbosch suggests that man is born to seek perfection; in so far as he fails to grow toward this spiritual goal, he is both "originally" and personally sinful. Englebert Gutwenger of Innsbruck University conceives of original...