Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facts about study in American universities justify to some extent the disrespect felt for certain types of research. But nothing could be more dishonest intellectually or more fatal to the whole spirit of university work than to confuse pedantic and largely fruitless study with scholarship at its best. That would be as unreasonable as the tendency to disparage the art of politics in its ideal Platonic sense because of the unprincipled machinations of Tammany Hall. The real meaning of scholarship is simply careful and thorough rather than slipshod and emotional thinking. The term is too often applied to work...
...also interested in your statement (in the same leader) that "the aim of education becomes more professional and less cultural" and that "fighting the spirit of the times is a vain and thankless task" which those in control of Harvard College ought not to undertake. This is very interesting. One has heard before, for sometime, that Harvard has sold out to the spirit of the times and gone in for "professional objectives" rather than "cultural ones." Dr. Flexner said something like that, and Dr. A. J. Nock, in their late internationally read books. I have heard it intimated in Oxford...
Evincing an attempt at compromise between the growing spirit of House athletics on one hand and a reiterated demand by a small group of students for the resurrection of 150-pound football on the other, the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports has lifted the ban on lightweight football and has arranged an eighteen day season culminating in a single game with Yale...
Harrison practices what he preaches. For an hour before the curtain goes up he sits alone in his dressing room and reviews his script to recapture the spirit of his lines. Once on stage he never gives a second-race performance, because his part has such stature that it groups him and brigs out the best talent that he possesses...
...issue is more than educational; it is the fundamental one of whether the masterworks of the past are documents, to be classified, analyzed in the post-mortem manner, of the laboratory, or "the precious life-blood of a master-spirit treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life", a life of which we may gratefully partake to augment our own substance. The signs are everywhere decipherable that the universities and critics of today have the sickness of an acquisitive society of the intellect; they need to be more respectfully, curiously inquisitive before the monuments to the past. English...