Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...camp at New Haven would take on a Harvard air if more Harvard men were there. If other colleges wish to send a larger contingent, the Corps would welcome them gladly, and Harvard's representation join with them in a spirit of friendly rivalry...
...Joffre, Marechal de France, that those thousand men, upreared in the spirit of liberty and proud in their strength, are worth more than a regiment of infantry. They would have stood well in the forefront of battle beside your bravest at the Marne...
...final selection of men to attend the Plattsburg camp has aroused some complaint, most of it apparently coming from men outside the University. In any game of life, foolish or real, there are always some among the losers to complain; although in most men the spirit of Saxon fairness is strong enough that they may bear defeat like gentlemen...
...delegations, Russian Socialists will be there, sent by the people's committee, whose opinions are somewhat dubious. There they will be greeted by their German and Austrian and Bulgarian and Turkish brothers-in-labor, although enemies-in-arms, and fraternize with them in the common love of that spirit of equality which transcends mere national politics. We might well send representatives from our own I. W. W. to add to the international gathering...
...difference from other colleges. The existence of such a magazine indicated, vaguely enough to be sure, a desire to think things through, to reject ready-made opinions for the mere reason that they were ready-made, to hold a little aloof from current lanes of thought. Such a spirit, only too rare in our land of gigantic uniformities, and almost non-existent in our colleges, gave one hope that here at least a leaven was working which would ultimately transform American thought from the flabby courageless thing it is into something new and liberating...