Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a great deal of deploring and viewing with alarm concerning the decadence of the Yale spirit. Mr. T. A. D. Jones chairman of the Yale Football Committee reproached the undergraduates of Yale for not turning out to one of these rallies on the eve of the late lamented Yale-Harvard game Sport writers commenting on the game agreed that Mr. Jones emitted a mouthful when he said that the old spirit of Eli was not there...
...grads of course will be with Mr. T. A. D. Jones in his indignation over the decline of the old Yale spirit. Yale no longer is Yale they will feel...
...Navy admits, nay protests, that it is not the world's greatest. In point, that is, of size, though never of spirit. Last week, on the heels of President Coolidge's unminced reiteration of his country's intention to look out from now on for its own interests, naval and financial, the Navy Department proclaimed its intention: "To create, maintain and operate a navy second to none, and in conformity with the ratios established by the Washington conference...
...Squealer. Among the more spirited of Manhattan's antiquarians is Mark Linder; he wrote a play from which lamed Mae West evolved the picturesque excitement of Diamond Lil; now he has scratched up further blood and thunder about San Francisco's underworld, 22 years ago. It is a candid melodrama, of vice rampant and virtue triumphant; yet its most bitter climaxes are meant to be accepted and enjoyed in a somewhat mocking spirit. The audience will gloat, not shiver, when a character says: "I'll get you for this, Logan, if it takes me twenty years...
...following season an underdog Crimson outfit tackled a powerful and masterful Eli eleven, and through the combined efforts and persevering spirit of the entire team and the running and plunging of Buell and George Owen '23, the Bulldog bowed, the final score leaving Harvard...