Word: spiritedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...realize, gentlemen, that we now have deliberation not upon permanent seats in the Council, out on peace or war? If there is failure here, it is failure of the Locarno agreements-Europe again divided into two or three camps, the spirit of revenge stirred up in Europe and in five years a new world conflict...
...spirit, Disraeli is?it could not be otherwise?the younger. Kittenishly and desperately he is in love with two grandmothers. Reeking with atrocious romance he will write yet another novel, while perhaps Gladstone's chief private speculation is whether he ought not even now to retire from politics and serve God as a bishop...
...With this change in our plan of learning we must also make a change in the system and spirit of teaching. The present lecture system, except in rare cases, is too formal and affords too little vital stimulation to the student. I believe that the tutorial system as it is carried out Oxford and as it is being introduced at Harvard is a step in the process of informallzing education. At Wisconsin nothing has been done as yet to establish this system but it seems very likely that it will be in the future...
Thus a blessing on a subtly sublimated form of falsity circulates throughout the country. With this publicity, Mark Twain's school of artistic lying has support in its war against prudish cherry trees. Apparently the hatchet is no vital weapon with which to attack the elastic spirit of falsehood. The ghost of Ananias may yet take corporeal form to lead the genial forces of fabrication...
...abrupt termination of the conference of the League disappoints those who hoped that the Locarno pact had meant the final establishment of Europe on a peace-time basis. From certain quarters ominous croakings are heard to the effect that the Genevan flasco has revealed the hollowness of the new spirit and sounded the death knell of the League. Yet in the harmony prevailing among the Locarno signatories, there is cause for the belief that the progress of international understanding has incurred only a temporary check. The longing of the war-torn European nations for a new world order is still...