Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...surprise us to learn that the general uneasiness and unsettlement of working habits which prevailed in the College last spring, during the early months of the war, appears to be giving place to a steadier gait. It would be far stranger if the College community failed to reflect the spirit in which many students must have taken up their work this year--a spirit of realization that they belonged in College just now because this is the very place where they can make themselves of the most value in the long run. This is a thought calculated to sober...
...book by an American general on the training of soldiers, which says that prayer is a necessary part of a good soldier's equipment. Spiritual force is just as much needed as physical force. It was spiritual force that bought those bonds for five billions last week--the spirit of liberty, and the determination to maintain...
...Montt, Honorary Consul from Chile; the next speaker, described the life of Latin American students, contrasting the college spirit there to the American college spirit, and showing the progress of the Y. M. C. A. in South America...
...dramatic, in both diplomatic and military fields of the war, is so constant and absorbing, that the casual American tends to overlook the vital changes that are slowly and surely taking place in the relations between North and South America. The friendly spirit which has intermittently characterized our Latin American policy has been overshadowed by the tactlessness which we have shown on more than one occasion. The interpretation which certain of our Presidents have placed upon the Monroe doctrine, and our only too evident fondness for buying up available islands lying off the South American coast have been construed...
...regular services. Appearing first in the winter of 1915 as the spontaneous full-sweeping effort of Harvard undergraduates to get what training they could at a time when official opportunities for military instruction were at a minimum, the regiment at Cambridge early became a rallying point for the spirit of national service in colleges throughout the East. Improving in discipline and in effectiveness, it received during the following year, as a merited boon, the able corps of French officers who came to supplement and reinform the instruction already being provided by competent American officers. So prepared, many of its members...