Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Union was built as an experiment. The democracy of the project sounded good to a college accused of snobbishness, and for years now this fanciful democratic spirit has hypnotized the minds of men who should have seen and known. The Union has not attained the goal for which it was begun; the Union is a failure; and in order to revive the dying institution, compulsory membership is urged...
...wide variety of subject-matter characterizes the March issue of the Graduates' Magazine. In addition to the usual faculty and student news, the number contains the President's annual report and ten special articles of collegiate significance. The military spirit comes in for its share of the discussion in "From a Graduate's Window" by an unrevealed author, and "Harvard and Military Training" by J. A. L. Blake '02. The former vindicates the purpose of the Regiment with the remark that "Harvard men realize that the College is only of value as it serves the nation." The latter favors enlistment...
...Although Berlin," he said, "is half responsible for the massacre of innocent people, the United States should be held equally accountable for making no form of protest. An eventual break with Germany will be inevitable and the American people must be ready in resources and equipment, as well as spirit...
...found her; the generous Harvard, the liberal Harvard, the sympathetic Harvard, the democratic Harvard, the Harvard of opportunities for the poorest lad in all the land. This is the real Harvard as I came to know her and to love her. The Harvard, the least affected with the false spirit of wealthy aristocracy and snobbery, and the most democratic of our great universities in America; the Harvard, where any poor boy without wealth or social distinction can go, trusting only in the ambition of an honest heart and noble purpose, relying only on his own brain, character and ability...
...revolutionary temper of the day suggests the first opportunity. In the prevalent spirit of scorn for old prejudices and of aspiration toward unadulterated truth, the student can do what no earlier epoch of classical criticism has generally and consciously essayed: he can apply himself to the privilege of discrimination and seek to arrive at an ultimate valuation of the different works of ancient literature. The moment has at last come when we may disembarass the Classics of the glamour that the humanistic enthusiasm of the Renaissance cast over all things ancient, good or bad, and when we may hope...