Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish to protest against the spirit in which several of the questions addressed to the Soviet Ambassador at the Law School Forum last Friday night were posed. In presenting Mr. Menshikov, I assume it was the purpose of the Harvard United Nations Council and the Harvard Law School Forum to promote understanding between the two great powers. However, some of the questions were not designed to solicit information, but to embarrass the Ambassador personally. Granted that our society is radically different from the Soviet Union, the question period should not have been used to demonstrate this difference, but to understand...
...question of legality, but of the cynical spirit in which the members of the organization perverted its purpose. Since controlling powers, in this case the Student Council and the Faculty Committee on Student Affairs, cannot legislate morality, an important factor in avoiding repetition of such actions will have to be the strong expression of student and faculty objection...
Katherine Gratwick, the new concertmistress, and Michael Nieland were soloists in Bach's Double Concerto. They were extremely competent, but could both have used more warmth in the slow movement and subtlety throughout. If they left some opportunities unexplored, they did perform with spirit and clarity...
...this spirit which impelled Reed, at the end of the Second Communist international in Moscow in August, 1920, to lift his team captain--in this case Lenin--on top of his shoulders...
...gabled rooftops and two young men, inconspicuously alike, came to call on me. Their names were Jonathan Fairfax III '59 of Boston and the Fly Club and Simon Cohen '59 of Scarsdale, New York, and the Minority Rights Club. Casting aside their fraternal affiliations and in the democratic spirit that made Al Smith an American reality, the two gentlemen said that were soliciting for contributions to the Harry T. Levin Ping-Pong Ball endowment, which, as is well known by now, ensures that no Harvardman need ever go without. How can I attempt to explain the fullness of heart...