Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be a "battle of giants" this morning when the Crimson and Blue Freshman soccer elevens clash. Both teams have had an outstanding season and both teams will try to grab that final victory with the same "do or die" spirit...
...recognized this necessity of creating frozen associate professorships when "exceptional circumstances" warranted. It's interpretation, of course, limited "exceptional circumstances" to cases where men had been retained on the faculty so long that any sensible or humane criteria dictated their permanent appointment on the grounds of "commitment." Obviously the spirit of the Faculty resolution goes leagues beyond this concept. The Faculty was training its sights on flexibility: on the use of frozen associate professorships to corral capable men whose appointments come up at times when the ordinary quota would require that they be sent packing...
Though it is rather unfortunate that the Radcliffe concert and the joint Harvard-Yale Glee Club program on Friday night are spaced so closely, the two differ so greatly in spirit that they tread on each other's toes only slightly. The Yale club has always adhered to the traditional pre-Davison formula of trick pieces and "barbershop" arrangements, and Mr. Woodworth has selected music for the Harvard part of the program which is evidently intended to harmonize at least with the spirit of the Yale section without compromising the usual musical standard of the club...
...creative spirit dwells celibate and solitary. All history yields hardly a famous poem representing a marriage of two minds, and only a few famous works of fiction-the novels of Erckmann-Chatrian, the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm. But in the theatre, which is always the product of many hands, collaboration has long and royally flourished, producing such well-known partnerships as the Elizabethan Beaumont & Fletcher, the Victorian Gilbert & Sullivan, the contemporary Hecht & MacArthur...
...literary curiosity, Old Possum's cat book rates high. The verses, which show a perfect skill, are profoundly Anglican, closer in spirit and allusion to Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll than to any U. S. humor. In some of them Eliot goes kittenish in a big way, recalling that suspect, sissified element in Lear and Carroll which sets U. S. teeth on edge. Yet latent in other of Possum's poems is enough ferocious fancy and parody to knock the spots off most cat books and most child verses...