Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...immediate success. This success was further attested last night when the song was sung at the mass meeting under the direction of the composer and was called for time after time. It took but a few minutes to learn it as it had few difficulties to present and the spirit and rhythm of the lines were highly contagious. It was a wise move on the part of the Song Committee to make use of this song even at this late date in the season, as it has qualities which entitle it to a high place among Harvard songs. It will...
...mass meeting in Lower Massachusetts last evening, the Freshman class attended to the number of about 200, and showed splendid spirit and confidence in their team. A. G. Cable '09 led the cheering and introduced the speakers...
...President Eliot is strange and hard to conceive. His influence has been so indestructibly stamped on the University that one can only with difficulty imagine it without him. To have the source removed seems almost destructive were it not for the fact that it can never be removed in spirit but will continue with us for generations. Few of us have known him personally but each time we have seen him we have admired him a little more; each time we have heard him we have gained a better conception of his power of insight which has seen goals that...
...upon the educational system of America. His gilt for leadership, his discrimination in the choice of men, and his power to conceive and execute large plans have made him the most conspicuous and influential figure of the last forty years in American education. He has, moreover, shown a public spirit and a sense of duty in all matters confronting the life of the community in which he has lived and the life of the country at large which has made him the leading private citizen of the Republic. His counsel has been felt in affairs for a generation and always...
When in 1901 the Union was formally presented to the University an address was delivered that ought to be read by every man who enters the building. It is full of a magnanimous spirit of generosity and devotion to Harvard, and cannot fail to arouse in anyone who reads it the feeling that his highest privilege as a member of the University is to give something to that University. And yet there are those who, ignorant or forgetful of this dedicatory address, even in the very building that is a monument to generosity and devotion are endeavoring to get something...