Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Since the declaration of the war, Harvard has demonstrated its splendid spirit of loyalty to the cause to which our country has devoted itself. Graduates and undergraduates have enlisted in all departments of the service on land and on sea. Now that the call has come to those who have been unable to go, to back up their fellows by means of the splendid work carried on by the War Council of the Y. M. C. A., they have proved themselves ready and have responded to the appeal of John R. Mott to give the fellows in the camps...
President Samuel Harden Church of the Carnegie Institute is firmly in sympathy with the exclusion of German music from orchestra programs. He writes: "It is Germany who has made war upon the humanities and upon the human spirit. It is no time to urge the finer things of life while Germany pursues her international debauch of murder, outrage and plunder. Nothing but the lasting scorn of human society can sting that arrogant nation into a penitence that will make safe and good neighbors of them. For anyone, therefore, to demand polite consideration and financial support of anything German would...
...Having seen the battle from the start, I could not help comparing it with the evolution of a football game. All preparations were made for the start, the men went forward with a grim determination, and after the battle everything was in readiness to receive the men, and the spirit of victory was in the air when the word of welcome was given...
...Thursday the University will be given an opportunity offered to no other college in the country. Dr. John R. Mott, the moving spirit of the Y. M. C. A. war work, will address the student body in the New Lecture Hall at 6.45 o'clock. Not only is Dr. Mott one of the greatest organizers the nation has; he is also a most forceful speaker; he has had experience which few. Americans can equal...
...charity, they have shown themselves able organizers; and in the province of housekeeping and food conservation, they have proved themselves intelligent, thrifty and capable. At a time when everyone is doing his best for the common weal, the women of the land have stood out preeminently for the spirit they have shown, and the results they have accomplished. Their success, then, should be regarded not as a political victory, but as a delicate compliment to the success of their work occasioned directly or indirectly...