Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enough to allow a work from the other side. Station WTIC has opened its mouthpiece to Professor Odell Shepard who has much fault to find with the American idea of sport and with college sport in particular. Professor Shepard thinks the whole trouble lies in our lack of a spirit of play. Business men for instance he claims play golf merely to keep fit for more business. What is important to them is not the actual play but the work of lowering a handicap...
...little things. You must close a door with the most mysterious manner, there must be an added significance in the way you walk across the room. It is fun though to try and thrill the audience. Once the cast has them in its power we enter into the spirit of the thing and almost frighten ourselves. Again we have to rehearse one episode dozens of times to get the right effect...
Thus will the universities of the Conference be preserved from the business spirit in athletics. Thus will they maintain the highest standards of sportsmanship in the education of American youth to be good halfbacks...
...leave quietly, being careful to put squeakoabsorbent on my boots before I go out. Trusting to gather a strong motivation to further progress from this first adventure, I shall proceed to Sever 18 where I can take either Latin 3 (hf) or Latin 7 (hf) according as the spirit may move...
...tradition of the Farnsworth Room is well established, it was pointed out by Mrs. Milner. "Freedom with dignity is what we strive for in the Farnsworth Room," she explained, "and it always comes if a man catches the Harvard spirit. Some men think the formality overdone, but they are the rare exceptions who do not fall into the spirit of the room...