Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Dartmouth is about to do has been tried from several different angles in other institutions. The honor students of Swarthmore and Williams and the fellowship system at St. John's are all moves of a kindred spirit. Perhaps in the working out of the autonomous plan at Antioch can be seen the best example of what may be expected from this latest innovation. While there have been no complaints of flagrant abuse of the liberties enjoyed, it has been pointed out that a certain degree of the freedom has not been without its disadvantages. A working plan of study...
...Harding '30 at the piano and otherwise supplied numerous comic touches and deserves whatever laurels are awarded the leading spirit. No, wait a minute those laurels will have to be divided with Marshall Stearns '30 whose broad portrayal of the heroine's mother was an equally bright piece of work. W. W. Ryan '30 found that filling the shoes of the late lamented Messrs. Wilson and Melcher was no easy job. In the face of an insurmountable handicap he did a creditable...
...ancestor, she built herself a medieval castle in Chevy Chase, called it "Rossdhu, Braemar Forest." She displays Bonnie Prince Charlie's sword in a glass case. She has Scotch evenings at which her Tennessee husband appears in kilts. At a ball last winter she personified "The Spirit of the Middle Ages...
...tied to the railroad tracks, to be rescued when the heroine smashes her way out of her freight-house prison with an axe and reaches him just before a cardboard locomotive trundles by. It is acted with true old-fashioned fervor by a cast which enters into the spirit of the occasion with a rush. Earl Mitchell is particularly convincing as the deep-dyed villain and whole-souled performances are contributed by John Ferguson, Helene Dumas, Ella Houghton. It is good fun if you feel like hissing, cheering and stamping your feet unrestrainedly. Next door there is a brass-railed...
...these forces act with all the order, concord and harmony imaginable. . . . 0, God, Thou hast appointed me to watch o'er the life and death of Thy creatures; here am I, ready for my vocation." Medical students study this prayer, along with the "Oath of Hippocrates" and its spirit has guided their practice. Scholars have long sought its Hebrew or Arabic original. Last week they were chagrined to learn that they had overlooked a report published in the American Israelite 21 years ago. The late G. Deutsch, doctor of philosophy, then wrote: "The Prayer of Maimonides, so called...