Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Finally, the policy of including Porto Rico within our customs boundary is politically wise, because it follows a line of successful precedent and is in keeping with the spirit of American governmental ideals. The policy of a territorial government with equal treatment for all has met the varying conditions in Louisiana, Florida and Hawali. Now we are asked to break faith with the Porto Ricans and abandon these principles...
...divided into six distinct parts, relating to agricultural pursuits of the people, holidays, civil laws, marriages, purity, and sacrifices in temples. This organization is intelligently arranged and is written with a peculiar terseness, which is characteristic of Hebrew literature at that time. It is this same intense religious spirit which inspired the Talmud that preserved the purity and character of the Jewish people in contrast to the other nations at that time...
...native-born American. For Professor Paine has written his own libretto as well as the music, and both words and music show genius of the highest order; the words in their dramatic power and poetic beauty, and the music in that it is free and original in spirit while preserving symmetrical form and proportion. The scene is laid in Provence about the time of the early Crusades. The opera is romantic in spirit, with a thrilling plot of many tragic situations and a happy denouement. The action centres around the invasion of Provence by the Saracens, and the music...
...standing committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports was appointed in that year. In 1883 it became apparent to the committee that football, as then played in the intercollegiate games, had become brutal and dangerous; but what was much more serious, it involved a danger to the manly spirit and to the disposition to fair play on the part of the contestants. Changes were made in the rules and a conference with other colleges was summoned by Harvard to consider the intercollegiate question. Nothing came of this beyond the education of the public, but the Harvard Faculty undertook single handed...
...work of the University baseball squad is now well under way. Although it is yet early, the material is beginning to shape itself, and the merits and faults of the candidates are beginning to appear. The most general fault is inaccuracy in throwing. The spirit of the men is all that can be desired, and the greatest danger is that of overwork...