Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time has its publisher or its editor felt entirely free to edit the magazine in that spirit of complete independence which is so necessary to a critical literary magazine...
...never did a man himself come closer to being in his biography than the late George Cram Cook now comes. Susan Glaspell, the wife with whom he lived his richest years, is an attentive woman. She appears to have seen him whole and in part, forgotten nothing. Her spirit is great enough to put self entirely aside except at moments of the greatest intimacy and importance-the very moments when an inferior nature would have quailed ox bridled. She has recreated and interpreted times and persons she could not have shared, with a quality of understanding that makes the book...
...love of good books. Within its walls are stored the volumes which that man loved and though its portals pass the feet of others who share his reverence and who week what he sought. It is not a mausoleum: It is the expression of an undying spirit...
...laying of the cornerstone of the Library should be quoted. "We may indulge the hope that as long as scholarship and learning are honored and the wisdom of the pas, is cherished, the endless generations of future scholars will seek this spot and recall with the same grateful spirit with which we recall the names of Harvard and of Gore, the name of the donor of the enduring building to be erected here...
...Lampoon editor too happy go-Lucky to care for his health and does he fall a ready victim: or is it merely that, as we know in medicine, tuberculosis is seldom a depressing disease--in fact, is often characterized by an unusual quickness of mind and optimism of spirit...