Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University would, as it does now, include both "Sheff" and the college. This tendency toward simplification is but another example of the present Oxford movement. When colleges cease to fear the restrictions of names a great advance will have been accomplished. Tradition will remain inviolate as long as the spirit of an institution flourishes. And certainly the News platform does not point to the contrary. No longer can American colleges rely solely on the past. What faces educators of today is to provide for the students of tomorrow. "Bigness is no measure of greatness and we believe that Yale college...
...banker in Pittsburgh. 2) He became a member of the Loyal Order of Moose. There have been loyal Moose before, but Mr. Davis was an inspired Moose. Believing that "a boy who knows how to build concrete houses will not have to sleep in haystacks," he was the founding spirit of Mooseheart-famed colony, 37 miles west of Chicago, where boys and girls are 'prepared for life" and graduated at 18. A thousand orphans (together with about 100 widowed mothers and their children) live there; learn to build houses and roads, to farm, to tinker with machinery; labor...
...gringo" to the Mexican "greaser." Said he: "The Communists in Mexico are trying to implant their vagaries in Nicaragua, hoping that they may spread throughout Central America and result in a communistic union of Mexico with the other Central American States, of which Calles aspires to be the ruling spirit...
...suggested an investigation by Congress. Whereupon, Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, hitherto unknown as a humorist, replied: "So far as I know the horses and the cows as well as the mules are surviving the ordeal, some of them even kicking up their heels and showing a great deal of spirit. As for the goats-I still have mine...
Irreverent readers of the published results were loud in facetious badinage. Thinking members of the church, with or without regard to these former, felt that the campaign had been injudicious - that the wind of the spirit, blowing whithersoever it listeth, is scarcely to be gauged by a meteorological chart...