Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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February 22.--The Unity of the Spirit and the Invisible Church...
...Cooper believes that the college man is really religious, not that his religion is always directed toward the expressions of it exemplified in chapel attendance and attention to religious instruction, but that he really has the religious impulse and the religious spirit. He cites the great increase in active betterment work as indicative of the practical rather than theoretical nature of the college man's religion...
Though he does not find college athletics an unmixed good and believes that too few are able to indulge in them, and though he finds certain post-victory observances highly objectionable, he nevertheless finds them valuable for discipline and for moral restraint. He also enlarges on college spirit and the sportsmanship and gentlemanliness required of and usually possessed by both player and spectator as making athletics a positive good...
...never been possible for Harvard to adopt the plan of class segregation which at Yale has been the chief means of building up a deep and inclusive college spirit such as Harvard--at least since the time of its recent tremendous growth--has not known. President Lowell has two plans for bringing about College unity which will have distinct advantages over the Yale scheme. The first of these is Freshman dormitories; the second is the thing for which the class of 1913 is now responsible--the Senior dormitories...
...reason under the sun for making such a distinction and it does perhaps more than anything else to harm Harvard in the eyes of the outside world. The best way to avoid the split which has destroyed more than one class in the past is to have a class spirit with the Senior dormitories as a foundation. The classes of 1911 and 1912 bear witness to what the Senior dormitories can do for a class. Managing the allotment of rooms is the most important work the class of 1913 does this year; it is one of the few things that...