Word: spiritedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Delano Roosevelt is a fifth cousin of the late Theodore Roosevelt and he married Theodore Roosevelt's niece, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. He is, conspicuously, the man that Theodore Roosevelt the younger never became. Tall, with a chiselled countenance, blue eyes, curling light hair, he has exercised a vigorous public spirit ever since, as editor of the Harvard Crimson, he demanded and demanded and obtained fire escapes for Harvard's dormitories. He went into the New York Senate in 1910 after practicing law for a while in Manhattan. President Wilson made him Assistant Secretary of the Navy and asked...
...Thomas Boiling Byrd, who is also in politics. He also has the aid, now, of elements which were unfavorable to him when he ran for office, viz. Senator Carter Glass and Publisher John Stewart Bryan of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Above all he has the aid of that cohesive spirit of aristocracy-in-democracy, which, despite his flair for mixing with chambers of commerce and booming the shipping facilities of Hampton Roads, he has helped to revive in Virginia politics. This spirit was visible at the Governor's Ball, not only in the presence...
...asked the South to be sportsman¬ like in the election, to omit "personal bit¬terness." He cited the political fights of the brother-governors of Tennessee?Alfred A. Taylor, Republican, under whose patriarchal auspices he was introduced, and the late Robert Taylor, Democrat? as illustrating the spirit in which he hoped the national election will be decided...
...generally backed by a seal for the greater glory of the college or of the men in the activity itself. The feeling that all the work is intracollegiate, that it is merely a mimicry of the outside world, leads to something very like that dubious sprite, the amateur spirit...
...Harvard, at least, the amateur spirit, in its crusading aspect, is not fiercely active. Where there is no driving force of a cause to be advanced, there must be a substitute to preserve the initiative. It may be that salaries for undergraduate executives might furnish this substitute. It is certain, at all events, that the placing of a job on a salary basis leads to a deeper sense of responsibility on the part of the incumbent...