Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proof"); but in his scholastic endeavors the undergraduate still has time to accomplish something in the college term. If the Christmas vacation passed quickly, the few weeks remaining between now and January twenty-eighth will fly. Not by trying to prolong the Yuletide festivities, but by shedding the holiday spirit for a more diligent resume of the regular schedule of studies will the undergraduate realize in full the benefits of the vacation...
Christmas receptions and entertainments cannot entirely compensate for the inability to spend the holidays at home. The good will which prompts them, however, and do much towards giving those who must remain in Cambridge over the recess a breath of the Christmas spirit. No less than four entertainments have been arranged for such students. On Christmas Eve President and Mrs. Lowell will receive members of the University at their home; on Christmas night, Phillips Brooks House will keep open house; on December 28, the Harvard Club of Boston will hold a smoker for undergraduates at the club house...
...would be simple charity to pass over them in silence. But as a consciences reviewer I am compelled to comment on them. Two are incoherent; they seem to have to do with the Christmas spirit. The third is a spirited eulogy of the Musical Review, which looks as if the Lampoon editors were trying to make up for their recent tilts against the other college papers...
...last year. The cast of 26 people has been rehearsing for over six weeks under the direction of Mr. August Vatter, who has coached the Verein plays for several years. "Die Journalisten" is a comedy of newspaper life in Germany of fifty years ago. The piece gives the true spirit of German life and has a serious undercurrent beneath the subtle humor that pervades it. It has been put on in Germany with much success...
...last public opportunity to honor athletes who thoroughly deserve all praise. Now, there are a number of ways of doing honor to our team, and one of the most objectionable ones is, so to speak, eating to them. The selfish way of loking at this dinner is not the spirit in which the football team went into its great game this fall, and we believe that it will appreciate least an over-exuberant reception. Healthy pride leads to healthy praise, which should never be made insincere by violent lapses into epicurean orgies. The spirit of the evening should...