Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lecture was called "The Spirit of Touchstone," and in it, Mr. Noyes declared that "Hamlet was not mad, nor was he pretending to be mad; he was putting on the disposition of the Fool in order to strike at the insincerity and unreality of the world about him. Hamlet derived his disposition from his former friend, Yorrick, the court jester, which friendship is emphasized and illustrated in the play by Hamlet's sad reminiscences in the grave-digger's scene...
...attention of the Department has been called to the patriotic spirit of your committee, and your earnest endeavors to promote interest in the Naval Training Cruise for Civilians among your fellow students, and to secure recruits for the same...
...revolutionary spirit which animated the Collegian was not suppressed. On May 11, 1866, the first number of the Advocate was issued. It was the Collegian under another name. The names of the editors did not appear, but the three Junior editors of the Collegian were summoned before the Faculty. There and in the pages of the Advocate the right of the students to publish a paper which should express undergraduate opinion, even when that opinion differed radically from the views of the Faculty, was strongly and successfully asserted. The counsel of the more liberal members of the Faculty prevailed...
...members of the first Advocate board were Edward W. Fox '67, Charles S. Gage '67, William G. Peckham '67, Joseph L. Sanborn '67, Frank P. Stearns '67, and Moses Williams '68. "While there was something of a purely literary spirit among the early Advocate editors," wrote one of them, "yet it was overshadowed by the combative zeal against the ancient Faculty and the ancient abuses, and by the enthusiastic desire to help bring about a better day for Harvard...
...outburst of enthusiasm by a band trained to render it as a march. We cannot conceive it possible that the hymn may imbibe into its essence any coarse or unpleasant aspect because it resounds oftener in the ears of students; and the band hopes that such a community spirit in the rendering of the hymn may call into new life the "wholesome conservative opinion of many of the older members" of Harvard University. ALBION C. DEAN...