Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reception at Phillips Brooks House tonight is the earnest effort of a number of Harvard men to get in touch with each foreign student in the University, in order to make him feel the spirit of fellowship that is Harvard, and to show him that we want his personal cooperation in our social life...
...action. Theirs is no slight sacrifice. They gladly accept the discipline and tedium of drilling and extra study to take advantage of the opportunities the College has placed before them--in the person of Captain Amann and others--to learn the art of war. And we justly admire the spirit and sense of duty which leads them to do this...
...best way to see and understand the state is to have an interest in its social problems. To cultivate a spirit of fraternity is the only way; not pity or the kind of fraternity that makes a man so sensitive that he can't bear to ride in a street car because there are women standing in it, but fraternity such as exists between farmers when they get together for a barn raising. Every contact with the average man is a way of teaching democracy...
...probability the spirit of football will not suffer...
...Thank goodness that a good influence is as contagious as a bad one and a good deal more so." Two or three fellows who get together with the real "Christian spirit" have more power than those who get together with bad intentions. Two or three who are brave enough to take a stand for what they really belive in will soon find that they have obtained a real following and that their little group has been doubled or quadrupled. He advised the Freshmen to come together in such small groups to think things over and really get to understand themselves...