Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last two acts, acted in the jury room, the spirit languishes. For Mrs. Fiske's absurd first-act character becomes a smart, dominating woman, and what was almost wicked satire becomes burlesque. The jury is shown in impromptu sleeping regalia. Two lovers are interrupted at their devotions by the snores of a red-headed Irishwoman. There are two crusty moralists, a conventionally exploited Scotsman, a maundering poet-all the stencils of farce, with a brace of beauties thrown in for good measure...
...Australia hesitates to receive immigrants it must not be conceived in an unfriendly spirit or as a lack of desire to fraternize with the peoples of other lands but merely as a desire to protect Australians from the misery of unemployment...
...Harvard, make the initial charge seem somewhat meaningless. The glow of pride that once quickened Harvard, Princeton and Yale hearts when football supremacy rested among the trio may well be transferred into vicarious satisfaction that their ethics are still the index for those who would adhere to the spirit of the amateur. Not one, but three, may raise their heads and walk proudly among the colleges. There is little fear that the major ills of which the Carnegie report treats will become epidemic. They have long been rampant, and the cycle points downward. Misapprehension that the frontier football spirit will...
...scheme to be tried in New Haven is in close harmony with existing theories, it is also true that the Harvard Corporation appears to have been influenced by principles of the past in choosing a form of the Hose Plan which emphasizes the Harvard idea of university spirit in its broadest sense. Characteristic of the plan in its relationship to the fundamental ideal of the university as a powerful cosmopolitan catalyst fusing a rich and tangible whole from various strong, individual components...
With the threat of the Dartmouth game hovering over it Harvard's University squad swept through its shortest workout of the season on Soldiers Field yesterday. The team displayed more dash and spirit than it has shown all week in the workout which lasted only 50 minutes...