Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object of such a monument (a war memorial) is to render honor to the dead, to precerve their memory, and remind those who come after of their heroism. The advantage of a Church or chapel is that one enters it in a spirit of reverence, and a church, therefore, adds something to the solemnity of a memorial, and this en-enhances the object sought...
...never accomplish its purpose without the cooperation of the students themselves. A pledge of the sort required can do little good by itself. Those sincere enough to refuse such a promise will lose their party, but drinking will not be decreased. Those who accept it without compliance with its spirit will in all probability be able to find loopholes by whch they will be able to maintain their pledged word without serious detriment to their enjoyment. The only cases where a pledge to "obey law" will accomplish its purpose will be among those who are willing to cooperate...
...clock this morning in Sever 6, Professor Burkhard will lecture on Lenau and two contemporaries somewhat related in spirit, Eduard Morike and Germany's foremost poetess. Annette von Droste-Hulshoff...
Between the works of these two men, in their very spirit as well as in their vehicle of expression, there are vast differences. You it is just these differences when seen works treating the same subject, that create the interest in their comparison...
...self-respect, that Author Ford's central figure stands. When the War came, Christopher Tietjens of Groby, ponderous, gentle, clumsy, omniscient, was already under the triply complicated strain of an abnormally faithless wife, financial difficulties and his love for Valentine Wannop, a young person of much head and spirit. In Some Do Not (1924) he resisted his need for Valentine as his mistress despite the facts that divorce from his Catholic wife was impossible; that Valentine was his perfect complement, and knew it; and that he was off for the War. In No More Parades (1925) he endured...