Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true spirit of generosity marks the executive acts of Mr. Roosevelt. Our budget will increase the federal deficit to $4,869,000 this year, but the President is big enough to disregard that. With Midas-like magic, everything he touches turns to gold, and in this new gift to the admirals he has more than justified the epithet of "The Great Giver." Roosevelt can be sure that the United States Navy will be deeply appreciative of his munificence. Bigger and better battleships, more sailors, a new awakening of enthusiasm for the Navy are bound to result...
...best essays for the ideas it expresses is entitled "After Religion, What?" by Frank Snowden Hopkins, a newspaperman. "The only philosophy," he says, which most members of the younger generation today can accept, "is one which is agnostic in its metaphysics, yet which stresses the faith of the human spirit in its own capabilities. It must be in short, a rational and purposeful philosophy, a creation of the human intelligence, a philosophy which, admitting all the limitations of the mortal mind, refuses to compromise with medieval superstitions and wishful self deceptions...
...says, by an efficient voice that demanded a direct answer to what seemed to the student a momentous question. "I cannot doubt." says Professor Hillyer, "that, although my information enabled him to correct the single sentence he had in mind, his should will split its infinitives forever, and his spirit will be but a dangling participle. Certainly he will never read Mackail...
Again from the standpoint of a neutral outsider, it would seem to me that a lot more could be done by supporting the system at your institution, right or wrong, rather than by trying to undermine whatever college spirit may still exist by criticising a man and a policy about which obviously the writer knows very little. If every man in the Harvard student body will get behind the administration, Bill Bingham, the coach, and the team, and will stay behind them. Harvard will not only have a winning team, but will justify the hope of every true sportsman that...
Trusting this effusion may be accepted in the spirit in which it is sent, I am Robert W. Moore, Jr., Colgate...