Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Freedom is no ultimate thing. Freedom in act and thought is merely the opportunity to become free in spirit. Nor is any man free until his perception of truth becomes unerring and his response to it instinctive...
...Yale game approaches, one cannot help observing among the undergraduates a feeling of assurance as to the outcome of the game. There seems to be a lack of appreciation of the severity of the coming contest, which tends almost towards over-confidence. If this dangerous spirit is allowed to develop in the University, it is almost sure to extend itself to the members of the team. Two facts the undergraduates seem to forget. In the first place, against the teams played by both Universities, Yale has in every case, except against the Indians, made a larger score than Harvard. Secondly...
...piece of imagination, and "Endicott and the Janitor," by H. W. Eliot, an excellent character study. The editorial is sensible and well pointed but it interests the Advocate writers more than the readers of the paper. The other stories in the number are "The Captain," by John Cary, "The Spirit of the Spanish Main," by S. A. W., "The Beginning and the End," by C. G. L., Jr., and "Across Kansas," by L. L. The other verses are "The Lake of the Setting Sun," by R. Pier, "To Shelley," by A. D. Ficke, and the quatrain entitled "June...
...loyal spirit that shall live for evermore...
There should be no note of sadness in services commemorating them. They faced their duty manfully and answering a call that seemed to them to come from God. The spirit of all the 117 Harvard men who died for the Union cause was the same; its keynote was fidelity and unfailing, cheerful courage...