Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students and all comers receive the mantle of membership at the door of the organization, an fulfill the other obligations of membership by filing this charter in their wallets, the law of Massachusetts proscribing racial discrimination stands flouted and helpless in the fact of a direct violation of its spirit and intent...
Among the new courses to be offered in the fall is a survey of "Classics of the Christian Tradition," which will be given by Perry Miller, professor of American Literature, and is intended "to offer an introduction to the Christian spirit as in has been expressed ins come of its greatest expositors...
More immediately and not much less potently than a rise in tuition, the attitude of the veteran threatens to change the nature of the College. "The lights are burning very late," Mr. Bender writes, "and there is not much leisurely talk or fellowship or group spirit. In the College, particularly, there is an unhealthy emphasis on grades." Here is a problem that Bender will inherit in all its complexity from Dean Hanford next July: how to relax the veteran and Keep Harvard from becoming a round-the-clock grind factory. This is no easy task, with graduate schools expecting their...
...Washington Columnist Thomas L. Stokes went the third annual Clapper Memorial Award, named for Stokes's good friend and onetime boss, the late Raymond Clapper. Said the citation of conscientious Tom Stokes: "Crusading spirit . . . tackles controversial issues . . . fairness in reporting both sides...
...Forreign and Domestick, got safely past Vol. I, No. 2. Under its new management, it saw no need to change its aims with the times: it would continue to expose any "malicious Raiser of a False Report," would work "towards the Curing, or at least the Charming of that Spirit of Lying, which prevails amongst...