Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clubs, unlike athletic teams, are self sufficient,-competition is not a necessity. But, whereas there is no necessity, there is a very marked opportunity of intercollegiate relations of the highest type. A joint glee club concert does not even imply competition. The highest degree of cooperation and a friendly spirit between two large groups from different institutions in practice, would be the result of this sort of intercollegiate contact...
...commencement at Lawrence College at Appleton, Wisconsin, Dr. R. W. Brown, lecturer in English in the University, was among five men prominent in educational and religious circles who received honorary degrees. Dr. Brown was awarded the degree of doctor of literature for his work as author of "The Creative Spirit" and a life of Dean LeB. R. Briggs...
...Coliseum, ancient Chicago political bear-pit, was last week the scene of a Northern Baptist convention. Oldtime revival songs swelled 5,000 throats until the Rev. James Whitcomb* Brougher, presiding, cleared his throat and keynoted: ". . .Let us keep the spirit of unity...
...panic. But out of respect to the memory of its saucy ancestor, Americana, be it recorded that William Collier calls Charles A. Lindbergh a "fly-by-nighter," that Marie Cahill recites a telephone monologue, that Evelyn Bennett dances like chained lightning, that Knox Herold catches the stern spirit of Bill Hart in a movie burlesque. Miss Bennett,* whilom "Baby Eva Tanguay" of vaudeville, looks like a street cherub with the legs of a high-jumper. So pronounced is her dancing ability, it is a shame she is allowed to spoil her effects by squeaking forth in song...
...whose bloodthirst was of an extraordinary coolness. As a detective he functioned for several years at taming the Wild West. Now he functions at pumping Wild West atmosphere into the eager balloon of his reminiscences. The verses above, quoted reminiscently, describe an oldtime bandit. Also they describe the spirit of Author Siringo, indicate the rough-and-tumble, hardbitten, gun-toting memoir on saddle-leather that this book...