Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inaugurating such a course, M. I. T. seems to forget that in its sports it has the best possible instructor in team work. For years the worth of sports has long been argued to lie in the team spirit so valuable in later years which they give the youth for a heritage. Certainly an hour of rowing on the basin in rough weather will teach far more than the drone of a lecturer's voice over an equal stretch of time. It seems unfortunate that an adidtional burden should be added to a curriculum already as crowded as that...
...grave in Arlington National Cemetery; he related that while he was making this dusty place for a flyer to stay in, a tall man had come quietly to his side and watched him at his work. The Negro asked his name but the man, as mysterious as a spirit, said merely "I was his friend." The stranger borrowed the Negro's spade and stood with his feet planted in the hole, lifting out the earth. For a moment he leaned back on his shovel; "So this is the end. . . ." he said. Then he stepped out of the grave...
...message, and heartily greet the Yale team and English Department. We rejoice that Harvard's first friendly opponents in the contest are our long-standing friends at Yale, and believe that the Putnam Memorial will advance our common interests. Our friendship has already been strengthened by Yale's generous spirit which we have felt throughout...
Princeton, on the other hand, represents the spirit of eternal youth. Her sons are capable of a beautiful emotion. If they do not show it they are afraid outsiders might suspect that they do not love Princeton. No graduate is ever too old to thrill to the singing of "Old Nassau" with his napkin waving on high. Annual atendance at a Triangle Club show assumes the aspect of a religious devotion. Heaven itself must seem to him incomplete if there is no little corner where Princeton men may congregate. --Baltimore Evening...
...been suggested that too much of the team against team spirit would be detrimental to the purpose of Mrs. Putnam's donation, and undoubtedly such a danger does exist. Realizing that such difficulties might arise, Professor Tat-lock in yesterday's CRIMSON said that "this is the first year of the contest, and it is likely enough that methods may be altered another year." A change that would put the awards more definitely within the grasp of the hopeful many would perhaps serve better the cause of scholarship...