Word: spiritlessness
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...Union, which has been a spiritless place for the last few years, takes on new life this year under the Freshman regime. Far from being merely an eating-place, it bids fair to become an important unifying influence during the chaotic first days of first-year men. The Freshman class, usually inarticulate and paralyzed, is to find a voice in the newly appointed Committee of Ten, which has been selected with a strong attempt to secure a representative group. While this committee will deal with certain of the routine matters of funds and smokers, there is good hope that...
Sidney Franklin (Frumkin), famed Brooklyn bullfighter, returned last week to Mexico City, scene of his first taurine exploits, failed to win official recognition as a full Matador de Toros.* Luck was against him. The three bulls which he drew from the corral were spiritless. They died more in sorrow than in anger, gave him small chance to display his talents. More successful was another novillero, a handsome 19-year-old boy billed as Liceaga. Liceaga's first bull was small but excessively pugnacious. Stepping in the ring he displayed great showmanship by flourishing his muleta, dedicating the bull...
...rooms of the Houses are to prove attractive to the undergraduate they must become more than mere reading rooms where magazines are provided for the entertainment of the residents. The failure of the Freshman Halls to bring any variation in the monotonous round of dormitory existence other than a spiritless smoker once during the year should have taught the University the futility of continuing in the old path. Common rooms will never break down social barriers at Harvard: they can, however, furnish in the Houses a place for informal musical entertainment, group meetings, and similar functions which could...
...times he said I had lost my looks. At other times he said I had nothing but looks to recommend me. He said I took no interest in his interests. He said also that I insisted on thrusting myself into all of them. He said I was spiritless, or temperamental; had no moral sense or was a prude. He said he wanted to marry the woman he really loved; and, that once rid of me, he would not marry anyone else...
...prepare them for business. This absolute neglect of the value of study for its own sake and for the appreciation of human knowledge attendant on it hardly needs comment. Its glaring fallacy will be too familiar to anyone acquainted with the already large literature inspired by the spiritless existence of the retired business...