Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...world of nature and the world of spirit reveal the lavishness of the gifts of God. For centuries the forces of electricity were in the world for men to use, while in their ignorance they dreaded it or toyed with it, until at last one mind grasped its meaning. For centuries God's offers of the power and nobility of the spiritual life were lavished upon every man, unaccepted, until at last Jesus Christ grasped them and lived them out in his wonderful life of leadership and service...
...bound to come--calls which he cannot refuse to hear. To meet these calls upon his time and yet continue his own work a man must learn thoroughly such lavishness as marked the life of Christ, lavishness which shrinks from no amount of work and is of one spirit with the lavishness...
...playing as a whole was full of spirit, but was marred by frequent fumbling. It is not likely that any first squad will be selected until just before the first game...
Only within recent years has an interest been felt either by English or American university men in international athletic contests. The growing familiarity of each with the other has therefore revealed wide differences not only in the technical features of various events, but in the prevailing spirit of sportsmanship as well. "Granted, the common love of out-of-door sports, the two countries differ in almost every particular. . . . Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell, merely to speak the names in a single breath raises an atmosphere of jealous and aggressive rivalry. . . . Oxford, Cambridge -- there is an immediate suggestion of fifteenth century...
This superiority, however, is being widely recognized in England, and has lately resulted in an attempt to close the Henley Regatta to Americans rather than raise the standards of training and watermanship. Taking into consideration the spirit of modern times toward progress and competition, this seems anything but a good plan, for with all their faults American methods are the methods that should in the end prevail...