Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kirkland, to visit H . . . , where a little refreshment soon raised heavy hearts to dwell on matters more pleasant than the football match. Soon into my party clothes and with F . . . to dine at Leverett. How the spirit of the navy has worked changes! Lighthouses in the Leverett windows and salty coils of rope dangling from the music platform. On with the dance till midnight curfew told us we were indeed yet in Boston and must still pay homage to the Puritan. Back in the tower, warm with the dance and warmer with the wine, to fall back and dream...
Dick Harlow, next introduced, talked of his appreciation of the backing of the press this fall. He mentioned the splendid spirit of the team, Captain Jim Gaffney particularly, and called George Hedblom "one of he finest examples of manhood I have known," mentioning his work this fall and his play, particularly, in the Holy Cross game last year when he made 12 tackles in 13 plays, and, weighing only 150 pounds, played against a 200 pounder...
...condemning the Varsity players, and commending them for the sacrifices they have made and the spirit they have always shown...
There is the germ of a good idea in these dismal remarks, but only a germ and an anaemic one at that, for it is too obvious that the writer knows almost nothing about contemporary college life, at least in any Eastern university. His little utopia, by college spirit out of Bryn Mawr, overlooks the fundamental fallacy of its existence, which is that college spirit is too worn out and decrepit to beget more than a weakling doomed to an early death--even with the assistance of Bryn Mawr. It does exist at a football game, and in a certain...
...Dick Harlow directed the final tuning up operations before the Naval launching, it was evident that the entire squad felt that they were on the eve of their first major victory in three years. There is no overconfidence--the coaching staff has taken care of that--but the underdog spirit of two weeks ago has gone the way of Princeton invincibility. Oldtimers around Soldiers Field have pronounced the psychological condition of the Crimson team perfect for the clash tomorrow...