Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jerome D. Greene '96: "Mr. Perkins' career indicates the public spirit which chaaracterized his whole life, but it was a public spirit without the slightest pretension. In spite of a background and business activity that identified him with conservative interests, he was a man of truly liberal spirit, and in no field of his activity was this more manifest than in his devoted service to the University as a member of the Corporation. He gave his complete support to the liberal policies of the University, including its maintenance of academic freedom under Presidents Eliot, Lowell, and Conant. In the counsels...
...subject of world chaos, dry Dr. Melvin T. Copeland* of Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration dwelt long and lovingly on commodity prices as a reflection both of U. S. trade and of the state of the world. Be cause of trade barriers and the nationalistic spirit, commodity prices began a general decline in 1925 which continued after the crash of 1929. On war demand and business revival early this year they had a strong comeback until the speculative collapse in commodities in England coupled with President Roosevelt's statement that certain U. S. commodity prices were...
Significant is the fact that four out of six of Harvard's 1937 cheer leaders are swimmers, significant because when new volunteers were called for last Spring, only one major letter winner outside the ranks of the swimmers applied. Whether or not swimming be technically a major sport, in spirit it is one of our most major sports...
...that major Harvard spirit is just what this year's cheer leaders are going to try to instill into this year's stands. Whether cheering makes the team or the team makes the cheering, as in the 1936 Princeton game, is beside the point. The point is simply that last year the cheer leaders were frankly "no good." Good yell leaders form the first requisite for good cheering...
...Phillips Brooks House last Monday night at which the leaders of the various undergraduate extra-curricular activities explained the nature of their work must have been struck by the extraordinary good humor with which proceedings were punctuated. Not only was the serious side of undergraduate life outlined, but the spirit of affability and good fellowship and cheer was shown by the tone of the meeting. The stories which enlivened the gathering appeared as a particularly pleasant form of good clean fun. Accordingly the letter which appeared in these columns on Tuesday morning decrying the "mild profanity" and "slightly off-color...