Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Growth of the Gothic Spirit...
...this building shows a rich diversity of structural detail, suggesting rather than copying motifs of numerous styles, from Karolingian austerity to Rococo playfulness. And the three main halls--the Romanesque, the Gothic, and the Renaissance halls--into which the interior is divided are conceived in the same large, comprehensive spirit. Each of them is of distinct individuality and brings out the fundamental features of the particular style of architecture which it represents, but only, so to speak, in sublimated, idealized form; while gradual and soft transitions of ornament and structure lead from one of these halls to another and make...
...Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee has drawn up a code for college football teams. This consists of a series of suggestions to players, and is not intended to be enforced by officials, being supplementary to the existing official rules. The spirit of the code is expressed in a quotation from it: ". . . no rules can make a gentleman out of a 'mucker...
...teams to ours?" The answer generally given is that Cornell gets many preparatory school stars, and that consequently their teams automatically round into form. As a matter of fact, Cornell gets no more good schoolboy stars than any other college of like size. The real solution lies in the spirit which gets men out and makes them interested in working for their college. It is foolish to say that Harvard has no track material. Out of the 1100 odd men who are eligible for teams there must certainly be a fair percentage of men who are capable of being developed...
...University Committee on Eligibility shall have power, however, to grant permission in advance to a student to engage in athletics, whether during term time or vacation, as the representative of an organization not connected with the university, under such conditions not at variance with the spirit of the rule as it may approve. It may also decide cases involving unintentional, technical or trivial violations of the foregoing rules, which are intended to prevent discrimination either for or against a student because he is an athlete...