Word: spiritedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teachings of this Prince of Peace they will go to war no more. There are economic reasons against war, and political and eugenic and humanitarian reasons, good reasons all, but men will still resort to bayonet and bomb so long as they have not imbibed the spirit of the Nazarene. That spirit is religious, of God, and produced and multiplied in a place of worship even better than in a place of scholarship. Only the highest ideals and the deepest convictions will uproot the seeds of war. These ideas and convictions are born of religion. Let us have our chapel...
...Harvard," he said, "baseball has fallen into about the worst rut that it has ever known at the University. This is undoubtedly due to a great many causes but the most important one, I believe, is the lack of interest which is shown by the undergraduates. Less enthusiasm and spirit of competition is being shown on the baseball diamond than in any other major sport...
...This spirit of baseball indifference has got to be changed and I'm going to make it part of my job as head coach to see that it is changed. Too many men are going down to Soldiers Field to while away the spring afternoons and not to put all they have got into building up a better Harvard ball team. Also, there are about half the men down there that ought to be supporting the sport in a college of this size. Too many potential ball players are fooling around with crew and minor sports at which they...
...never known before that human beings could, with time, acclimatize themselves to high altitudes. We accomplished this thing. Mallary did not die in vain. He showed that the heretofore unconquerable mountain can be conquered. Tonight I shall attempt to show you the romantic fascination and the semi-religious spirit that...
...business to sequester the control of a corporation, and, in this case, a public service corporation, in the hands of a small group of un-responsible if not irresponsible directors. When this objectionable feature has been removed, provided the promoters are willing to comply with the new economic spirit, then the Commission will be able to tuck the huge consolidation away among the "good trusts" and hid it a successful career...