Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Members of the Dramatic Club will take part in "The Spirit of Poland," a play for Polish relief, in Jordan Hall on Friday evening at 8 o'clock. The play is in five acts, written by Miss Dorothea Murray Hughes, a Radcliffe graduate, is given in aid of the Polish children, and the proceeds will go to the Sienkiewicz fund, and will be cabled at once to Poland, where they will be distributed by the agents of the Polish relief committee. It is being given under the auspices of the "Friends of Poland" of which Mme. Szumowska Adamowska is president...
...signs in the skies look propitious for a better track team this spring than the University has had for many years. Already a new spirit has begun to pervade the track house at Soldiers Field. The coaches and the directors of track activities already have turned a sharp corner and the new road looks bright with encouraging prospects...
...have spoken of the dawn of a new track spirit, but it will be a gloomy, chill dawn if the track squad reporting for the first practice today is not larger than any in the last four years. Two men reporting for the hammer-throw, three for the high jump, and one for the pole-vault will only snuff out the hopeful flame recently kindled. The best of systems must have men behind it. Today is the time for undergraduates to show the committees who have been working for the most efficient plan of direction that the College appreciates their...
...does not mean he should blindly close his eyes to any judgement of men. Such blindness would be the very antithesis of knowledge. Democracy is not equivalent to genial joviality. It is something deeper and more enduring. Those who accuse Harvard of lack of democracy fail to understand the spirit or the meaning of the word...
Harvard is not democratic. It has not been for generations, and does not bid to change for generations yet to come. What is more, it makes no pretenses at democracy. The Freshman Dormitories, designed to combat the rampant spirit of caste, has done no small amount of good, but they have failed to establish any democracy--within even a single class. Harvard alumni winced at the publication of Mr. Flandrau's book, "Harvard Episodes," but they knew is substance to be true...