Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another new move in education comes from Harvard, an institution which has had a reputation for progressiveness since President Eliot assumed office in the late sixties. This progressive spirit has been expressed in the establishment of extensive graduate schools, such as the business school, established early in the history of education for commerce's and administration, in the gradual granting of more and more freedom to the undergraduate, which has resulted in the "Dean's List" permitting unlimited cutting of classes to the scholastically successful, and in the study of educational methods made ten or twelve years ago when...
...world he said that he believes it due to the fact that for hundreds of years the Finnish people have been forced to struggle for existence in the face of hardships entailed be the rigors of climate and a soil but little adapted to agriculture. This lends them the spirit to fight against odds so essential to long distance runners, and the centuries of hard work have geven them the necessary physical stamina...
...narrow religeous and patriotic tenets which make possible such action are expressions of that reactionary and Czaristic spirit which is the worst enemy of modern American education. It regards the school and the college alike as primarily the strongholds of traditional opinion. He hides under the mask of 'good citizenship". He makes impossible any other educational system than that which trains the students in acceptance, a prettier way of saying that it straight-jackets the intelligence. What then becomes of the Tutorial System, of the Honors course, of Dr. Meiklejohn's college, all of which are in fundamental opposition...
...chest-pound-ing, fistshaking, handshaking, "manly challenge" revival. "HellCat" confesses publicly. The half-baked atheism of "Hell-Cat's" only friend and roommate, Jim Lefferts, is no match for raw afflatus. Unwittingly the atheist supplies all that the convert needs for his "Call" and ordination. The Holy Spirit enters Elmer Gantry, in a timely jolt of Bourbon...
...strenuous visitation of the same spirit causes Elmer's ejection, three years later, from Mizpah Theological Seminary. But he has known the intoxication, stronger than drink, of speaking from a pulpit; has learned, among other rewards of the profession, the ease with which a pastor, who is a baritone solo incarnate, can seduce the parish kittens. A few years of selling farm implements and indulging in small town waitresses are an ideal prolongation of Elmer Gantry's novitiate for his first great phase, evangelism...