Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fallacies in the reasoning of the Gadfly. And, true to its name, it has a certain insectivorous bite which may either add to or detract from its appeal. But as an expression of opinion on a vital problem it is to be commended. It is only from the spirit and the actuality of disagreement in theory that progress comes...
...fear lest subdivision at Harvard, if carried far enough to break the present rhythm of student life, would produce American small-college standardization. We should have college traditions legislated into being, disciplinary measures against freaks, an intensive rah-rah spirit. I am sure the thousands of Harvard graduates feel with me that liberty to make our own friends, do what we like, eat where we liked, and wear what we liked, was the most precious aspect of our College life...
...article by the Reverend J. Frank Chase, secretary of the New England Watch and Ward Society, in the May number of the Harvard Advocate, summarizes the aims and spirit of what he calls "The New Puritanism". After an impassioned eulogy of Old Puritanism and its fruits, the article exhorts us to consider the paramount importance of reviving Social, Civic and Individual Righteousness, spelled with capital first letters, quite as if these virtues had long since ceased...
...fired by the crusading spirit...
...foremost is, I think, the lack of neighborly spirit in this country. In Europe where most of the people live and die in the same locality their lives are much more likely to become intimately connected and bound up with each other than in the United States where the inhabitants are of a distinctly roving nature. The racial differences in this country also hinder the development of a friendly and cooperative feeling in a community...