Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a real question in some subjects just how far the professor should link up his teaching with the problems of the present. Certainly there is much in a college which can best be taught in a spirit of detachment and an atmosphere of the past. But there is much more in which the failure to vitalize teaching by revealing its bearing on the problems of the present, robs it of the appeal which it would otherwise have for the average student. The motive which most often leads a teacher to neglect the contemporary implications of his teaching...
COUNTLESS tomes have been published and are still being written eulogizing the courage, character, and pioneer spirit of our colonial ancestors, books which to many are dull accounts of uninteresting trials on the barren Atlantic coast of those who felt they must found a new country. Most of these tales deal entirely with the New World aspects of these colonies. Here is a book which takes up not primarily the American side, but the English antecedents of the foundings of America...
...This is a house. Lowell's great mind conceived them. A cross section, that's the thing. No cliques. A homey spirit without any backslapping. That and knowledge are what Harvard stand for. You should be mighty proud that you will have...
...like a fresh snow drift blanketed with fine blue-grey ash. Only the Pekingese Wu Foo of Kingswere showed no white in its tawny-red fluff. The final judging lasted 20 minutes. Dr. Jarrett watched the six prize-winners as they circled the ring; eyed their carriage, gait and spirit; felt their shoulders, briskets and coats; solemnly pondered his decision...
...days earlier the dogs had been alert and slick, primed to the pink by kennelmen looking to reputation and profits through wins in the No. 1 U. S. dog show. Now dogs and handlers lolled together in the cramped boxes, panting in unison. But there was still enough spirit left in the terriers and high-strung German Shepherds to keep the basement a yapping bedlam...