Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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What the Union needs more than anything else is spirit,--in a large sense. We are told that it is not a purely public institution, philanthropic in its conduct of lectures, and entertainments, but a democratic club, much like the large institutions in a large city. Yet when the undergraduate enters the building the atmosphere is cold, the rooms not too homelike, and the service decidedly in different. What the Union needs is "enmasse" enthusiasm. It can well do without an elephantine "frattiness," but it does need friendliness. It does need to avoid that lingering air of decay...
...make the Union live up to the ideals for which Mr. Higginson created it. They should be genuine servants. With the opportunity to make additional nominations by petition, the Union members have only themselves to blame if the final slate does not satisfy them. The right sort of spirit, if the Union is ever to attain it, must begin with the officers...
...armament" is itself the best guarantee of peace. The Summer Training Camps offer, it is held, an opportunity for college men to do their part in securing this so-called "insurance" in a not altogether unpleasant way, with the least possible personal sacrifice and without danger of developing a spirit of militarism in the nation...
...that they succeed in the purpose for which they were founded, will the Summer Training Camps stifle the university man's belief in the chance for peace now and today. The man who served in an army reserve of any kind may believe he is thoroughly anti-militarist in spirit, but the insurance in which he invests is always of one kind,--a little bigger and a little stronger army or navy; he is never the man who will be found taking difinite steps forward on the only path which can ever lead to real progress...
...would be not merely unjust, but sadly inadequate. Mondestly they made helpful suggestions; when called upon for service--and the calls were many--they gave thought and labor without stint, in one of the most trying cases of discipline of recent years, performing without flinching and with finest public spirit a necessary, but highly repellent, duty in our College community. Earnest, clear visioned, strong in the vigor of their youth, forgetful of self, they sought but a single end, the promotion of the welfare of Harvard College...