Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ordination of various activities of the schools and colleges of the country "in the name of America and in the spirit of Roosevelt" is the purpose of the new Roosevelt-America League. Mr. John Finley has made public a statement which outlines the plans and program of this league whose object is to perpetuate "the spirit which this extraordinary man incarnated." Part of the program includes summer camps in Roosevelt's "old west...
...York State Historian; Mr. H. S. Weet, Superintendent of Schools of Rochester; Dr. Stephen P. Duggan, Director of the Institute of International Education; Mr. Hermann Hagedorn, Secretary of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, and myself, as chairman, calls for a co-ordination in the name of America and in the spirit of Roosevelt of the physical, intellectual and civic activities of the schools and colleges of the country...
...With Roosevelt's balance of physical vigor, mental energy and civic responsibility as an example, the plan as we have drawn it up, stipulates, that the purpose of the organization shall be, in general, to stimulate in schools and colleges the appreciation of the balance of body, brain and spirit in the well-moulded man, and specifically, first, to help the feeble body to become strong; second, to encourage the eager mind to find expression; and third, in the spirit of Roosevelt's practical idealism, to develop intellectual patriotism and the understanding of the duties and opportunities of American citizenship...
...scenery in "Fame and the Poet", however, will stand a few adverse comments. It had no definite character; it added nothing to the picture. There were no specific faults, except the wall cloth in rear of the altar, but the totality seemed rather far from the spirit of the play. The view over the roof tops from the Poet's window was extremely good, and in some measure atoned for the colorless interior. The lighting was good and well managed...
...pared for what followed. Some of the spectators remembered that, before the war, plays by Holberg and similar authors were given frequently in Germany with great success. And they wondered what the H. D. C. would do with "Erasmus Montanus". How would it maintain the spirit of the 18th century and yet bring such a play home to the sensibilities of a present-day audience...