Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...action taken on Monday by the Princeton Senior Council only throws into more vivid relief the importance of the spirit that lies behind such cooperation between administrators and students. In tendering its resignation, the Princeton Council has registered the most effective protest possible against that form of student government which by edict of the dean hopes to effect lasting and beneficial reform. It is brought out clearly in the resignation of the Council that the step is taken not as a protest against the particular reform in question, but against the spirit in which it is made...
...activity, those periods of preliminary practice should be lengthened and formalized into class competition providing in this manner for more intense interest in "Athletics for All". This would by no means eliminate intercollegiate sport. It would merely cut down schedules whose length at present unquestionably interfere with the intramural spirit by providing an overwhelming counter interest appealing to the potential spectator which exists in every...
They were to find a "native" theme. Indians? Witchcraft? Skyscrapers? No, the most native to U. S. spirit, decided Miss Millay, is the old Saxon legend. The Saxon is nearer than the redman; the turbulent warrior dearer than the Puritan, to our age. Theirs was a forthright, swaggering, romantic spirit. Mr. Taylor would write his music true to the hunt, the forest, the clash of sword, the misty superstitions, the feudal ideals of loyalty...
...Davenport, Iowa, George W. Cannon, Jr., 14, high school student, admirer and correspondent of several actresses, wrote a long letter saying "to die will be a glorious adventure. ... It is my belief that my spirit will some day enter into the body of a playwright and will call forth the story of a boy who loved to dream, the story of a boy who was so disillusioned that he couldn't stand it any more," and inhaled illuminating...
...colleges were implicated very faintly if at all in a condition long evident in the U. S. Professor Herman Harrell Home of New York University ventured to say "that there are less suicides among college students than in any other class." Well might he have added that "the inquiring spirit of the youth of today," as he called it, operates quite as violently among young truants, boy-bandits, street sheiks and thrill-hunters as it does among students. Only, as a rule, the violence is directed upon a victim. Last week, for example, one Floyd Hewitt, 16, of Conneaut, Ohio...