Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Athletic Association annually collects and expends vast sums deserves to be represented. With the Student Council behind it, student opinion as a force in athletics may be re-energized and brought to that degree of vitality which it must have in a University which prides itself on a spirit of amateurism...
George Washington was the recipient of the first LL.D. ever given by Harvard College. It was voted to him by the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University, in accordance with the prevailing spirit after he had driven the British from Boston in March 17, 1776, and "as an expression of the gratitude of this College for his eminent services in the cause of his country and to this society, on April...
...difficulties of the colony precluded any expectation of pecuniary aid from the General Court, who, in their best estate, had never been characterized by a disposition to give aid in money. The liberality of individuals was it only resource. Even among these, there did not early appear any active spirit for its relief...
Said Commissioner McNanamy and two associates in a strong dissenting opinion: "The decision of the majority hews too closely to the letter of the law in disregard of its spirit and fails to recognize the practical aspects, with the result that the air mail carriers are frozen in their present positions regardless of the public need for additional service and their ability to furnish...
...President James Bryant Conant tried a fast telemark, snapped a ski, tumbled, snapped his left collarbone. Rushed back to Cambridge, crippled Scholar Conant rallied sufficiently to make his first political statement since assuming the Harvard presidency, denouncing Harvardman Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan as "contrary to the spirit of a free, democratic government" and "dangerous in the extreme...