Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...says: "I have tried [in the "Ballet Mécanique"] to express America's tremendous power and energy without writing it in terms of jazz." Composer Antheil, first to propagate a serious appreciation of jazz in Germany, believes it is now on the wane, in form, not in spirit. Yet his favorite composers are Beethoven and Handel...
...perfect combination. The Hon. Mr. Comer had been everything an Alabaman should have been-Civil War cadet, large-scale farmer, large investor in manufactories, wholesale merchant, citizen with public spirit enough to enter politics and fight for reforms himself. Railway rates had been the issue of his political career. Water-transportation for inland Alabama industry was the end to which he now gave his name and money, until the end was won. Not for a "handsome profit" Alabamans said, had the Hon. Mr. Comer and Publisher Thompson used the Age-Herald, but as an instrument to develop their state which...
Today, in Appleton Chapel, Harvard College gives manifest evidence of its share in this timeless celebration of its great president. There will be no more parades. But the spirit behind this afternoon's service will be that which will survive all the flags and academic glories that ever celebrated this man yet alive...
...activity in the field of international study. Is it not quite possible that the dozens of other business men's organization in the United States should follow their lead? What then becomes of Main Street, Mr. Babbitt, and even Sinclair Lewis. With all its flummery and posing the joining spirit of contemporary America must have in it a deeper and more fundamental element. Dartmouth debaters travel New Hampshire to clash before business men's clubs on the International Debt Settlement. Rotary sends students for study in Europe. All this surely signifies something good and highly worth-while. The much abused...
...this country. Perhaps never before has there been in American university education a greater variety of theories and practices than exists today. Yet the fact remains that criticism of the pre-examination "reading periods", some of which is reprinted on this page, is of one tone in applauding the spirit behind the change and in hoping for its success...