Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover just like this year's-an honest-to-God book worth saving, with more than a dozen Faculty profiles, good features on Harvard music and the Design School, and a long anthology of the best writing from undergraduate publications. Harvard would never buy the intensely orderly rah-rah spirit behind most high- school yearbooks, but the 1965-66 edition suggests that the substanceless artsiness of this year's number is not the only alternative...
...need for sacrifice. But once the bombing stopped, the populace began to look for some fruits of what their leaders said had been a glorious victory. None were forthcoming, and the regime has been forced to exhort its people more than ever to work harder and retain a warlike spirit. If this analysis is correct, then all the allied claims justifying the bombing as demoralizing to Ho's people would seem to have been in error...
...that would amaze the Medical School, the senior hurler spent this spring astonishing baseball hitters with that strong arm and leading the Crimson pitching staff. Over three seasons, Kalinoski compiled a 10-1 record and this year became the first recipient of the Coach's Award, presented for team spirit and contribution...
Also, the old rituals which enhanced student, life and bound them to each other, and to their college college, such as football rallies, homecomings, etc., all have lost most of their meaning and have not been replaced by anything but the estimate the sit-ins and rebellions provide. The spirit of intimate comradeship that used to prevail in a fraternity house is now found by all too many students in their sit-ins, where they feel closely bound together, important as at no other time, doing things together which they deep down know they do also for the emotional satisfactions...
Much as businessmen talk about the need to help the poor, ghetto betterment projects often seem to generate more rhetoric than results. "Whenever the average businessman has done something, he has done it in a condescending spirit and at a distance, not in a face-to-face partnership," says Mills B. Lane, president of the Atlanta-based Citizens & Southern National Bank. "He likes to sit around and debate, then go write a check to some agency or other...