Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...offenders would only take the trouble to look about, they would have little difficulty in finding many people and things connected with the College community as a whole which they might well be proud, instead of too proud, to associate with. The more thoroughly all smallness of spirit is blotted out in a given generation at Harvard, the greater will be its unity and the effectiveness of its combined action...
...flattering to the distinguished philosopher whose death we have all recently lamented, and Professor James would himself have been the first to relish the candor of this study, as he would have been the first to disparage his own eminence as its subject. If Professor James embodies the American spirit, Professor Royce in this brief study has gone deeply into its critical interpretation...
Professor Palmer has well said that the spirit which is usually known to outsiders as "Harvard indifference" is in reality only "Harvard difference." The activities here are so many that it is impossible for a man to keep up his interest in all or even part of them. He has to differentiate-choose the ones on which he wishes to put his attention, and in order to do well in those, remain indifferent to the others. Depth of interest in one thing rather than breadth and possible shallowness in many activities is, in the final analysis, the thing which...
...honor of Professor Palmer. Due praise is given for Professor Palmer's share in the growth and development of the Department of Philosophy, but special emphasis is laid on his "power of the single word, of the patiently adjusted expression, of the gemlike sentence or paragraph." In like spirit of appreciation is the Greek epigram by E. K. Rand '94, in honor of Professor Palmer, given also in English verse by the versatile author. It was a happy thought to write in Greek of one who has been so true an expositor of the Greek spirit as has Professor Palmer...
...country which would be of great advantage to both. The secretaries of the territorial clubs could inform the secretaries of the home Harvard Clubs of their members, and through mutual acquaintance in the vacations a step could be made in the right direction. The furthering of Harvard spirit in this way might easily lead to the foundation of more Harvard Club Scholarships; and the holders, through the territorial clubs, could be better looked after when they come to College than is possible with the present lack of organization...