Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...groups of a few men. There is a great danger in this fact, though it is one not easy to perceive. When the standard, the ideal, is set by a group, it is certain to be lower than when upheld by an individual, and the public, seeing a spirit of compromise in the new organization, at once loses all faith in it. Here we have the secret of the failure of many such enterprises, and it is hard to blame any one for it. Indeed, the claim is made that a practical politician, though of the future in his desires...
...recent numbers of Harper's Magazine, Mr. John Corbin '92 says: "If the question were to be asked, what is the most dramatic instition in the country, an intelligent theatre-goer would most certainly answer, 'Mr. Conried's Irving Place Theatre.' Relying merely on the artistic spirit of the German speaking communities of New York, Mr. Conried has established a house that presents most of the interesting features of the repertory theatres that are at once the pride and strong hold of dramatic art in Germany and Austria." In every German city of any size there is a princely...
...Charity" is the only story in the number which can attempt to reach the sympathies of an undergraduate. Here the reader is brought into the spirit of the story in a sketch which has the real College tone...
...question of the advisability of the Freshman class having a dinner has recently been brought up. Such a move would, it seems to me, be an excellent thing. In the case of the upper classes, a yearly dinner has almost invariably served to bring out class spirit and class sympathy and to bind the members of the class closer together. In these days of very large classes, it is growing more and more difficult to rouse real class spirit and class enthusiasm, and everything which tends to bring out class spirit should be done. One of the best ways...
...French Academy this year awarded to him the Prix Vitet, and M. Gaston Boissier, secretary of the Academy, said in his official report: "M. de Regnier is one of the leaders of that new school which pretends to do no less a thing than modify the form and the spirit of French poetry. Everybody recognizes that M. de Regnier has very rare poetical gifts; abundance and richness in images; amplitude and harmony of the period, a grace both provoking and natural that makes him admired even by those whom his boldness displeases." M. de Regnier was made a chevalier...