Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...votes of fellow students, and (4) by the head of the school or college. Where circumstances render it impracticable to carry out the letter of these suggestions as in the method of selection, the Trustees instruct that every effort will be made to give effect to their spirit, but desire it to be understood that the final decision must rest with the Committee of Selection...
...life of many cities is meeting simply and solely to discuss matters which centre around the University. Surely no conceivable material harm can possibly overtake an institution which possesses such support. Undergraduates can prove that they deserve that support only by keepting alive in Cambridge that greatness of spirit which has always distinguished Harvard institutions and which is theirs to pass...
...beaten bully is again howling for mercy. The latest whine of the German peace delegation declares the treaty framed by the Versailles Conference to be "more than the German people can bear." Count von Brockdorff-Rautzau asserts: "the more deeply we penetrate into the spirit of this treaty, the more convinced we become of the impossibility of carrying it out." This statement makes us wonder in what spirit of liberality a victorious German government would have imposed peace terms. At the end of the Franco-Prussian War, France pleaded in vain. Two of her fairest provinces were torn from...
...English Labor Party has denounced the Peace Treaty. It finds the drastic terms out of tune with these liberal times. This is true. But they are in harmony with the spirit of the nation upon which they are to be enforced. Germany has learned a language of might and of indemnities. She has not yet comprehended defeat because the strong arm of the invader has not yet been felt. The dinners in Paris have been postponed not cancelled. Ultimately there will be victory and punishment for the accursed Americans...
...thoroughly in harmony with the co-operative spirit and purpose of this Congress, and we wish all success to its deliberations. Even if little of immediate practical importance is accomplished, surely a great world movement for student co-operation will have been launched, and the very launching, will have been more than worth while. When M. Jean Fuielle, General Secretary of the organization, visits Cambridge in the course of his projected tour of American colleges and universities, we are sure that Harvard men will give his plans for the closer international co-operation of college students their warmest support...