Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel that attaching a name to a school, a building, or a library, clearly carries symbolic significance. The name John F. Kennedy evokes a spirit of public service which pervades the Kennedy School community and which the School seeks to instill in its graduates. At the Kennedy School of Government, the only school in the University to bear someone's name, names are unusually salient. Thus, we find it particularly unfortunate that the public affairs library of the Kennedy School has been named for a man who played an important role in promulgating a society whose values run contrary...
...future of the Kennedy School of Government and its programs, for the sustenance of the spirit of public service the Kennedy School represents, and for fear of honoring Charles Engelhard and the society from which he profited, we feel the name of the Engelhard Public Affairs Library should be changed...
...state is still run by the same pioneer ruling class of wealthy agribusinessmen and industrialist power-brokers who first came to Arizona a century ago to engage in the kind of business practices that were illegal in the less-permissive East. With or without Don Bolles, the lawless spirit of Arizona's Billy-the-Kid days still prevails...
With the young Tiger squad looking distraught, Princeton called time out; and when play resumed, both the crowd and the Harvard team had lost the spirit...
...Nelson tried to downplay the effect of the suspensions on the meet by keeping no running team scores and saying things like. "Let's concentrate on the swimmers that are here." But you just can't rob a bunch of 14 and 15 year old girls of their team spirit; after Saturday night's finals, for instance, the flagwaving American youngsters blurted out, "Give me a "U", Gimme an "S", Gimme an "A"; Whattaya got? United States of America, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave!!!" "It sure would have been nice if they were here." sure would have...