Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Student Council Committee on Education deserves credit for its latest report, which is in the spirit of the important Council reports of the thirties. Through such carefully prepared reports on education and life at Harvard the Council has made great contributions to the College. The reputation it acquired for these reports has not been wholly wrecked by its increasing political activity, and the present report will probably bolster up many people's flagging faith in the Council...
...poem is concerned with the variously-named demigod or "spirit of the year"-e.g., Zeus, son of Rhea . . . who in early European religious theory was at first wholly subject to his all-powerful variously-named Virgin Mother. As Europë, "Broad-face" (her full-moon title), she named this...
London's independent Economist wrote icily: "Fustian and bromide . . . [The program] will cause some stirrings in the Socialist graveyards ..." The Liberal Manchester Guardian sniffed: "Skillful patchwork . . . but the triumphant Socialist spirit has evaporated...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, said yesterday that the North Atlantic Pact "will prevent Russia from starting a war in desperation to stir up the spirit of nationalism in the Russian people...
Bert Haines, who coaches the 150 division, has almost no experienced talent to work with this year in his crop of freshmen. Not much more than spirit will be riding in the '52 150 shell this afternoon. Last year, Haines was blessed with a top notch freshman crew. Six members of it now row in the varsity lightweight craft...