Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no doubt in the world that college spirit counts in football. The sense of solidarity with their human background always gives men strength in combat, just as a tendency to individualism weakens them. The boy who can feel that it is his Alma Mater bucking the line, and not he, is worth more on the gridiron than his fellow of even greater strength and speed who in his subconscious represents only himself. This explains why certain institutions, often with scanty or inferior material, have the habit of turning out winning football tean's. With all due salaams...
Princeton has the thing called college spirit to a degree that is almost unmatched. This is not necessarily a compliment. College spirit needs for its strongest expression an attitude in the individual that is a little less than sophisticated; a little less than mature. He must be prepared to swallow unquestionably much that a properly developed sense of humor would reject and to adbicate emotionally and intellectually at the call of the pack. As men grow to intellectual maturity they frankly hesitate to "die for dear old Rutgers," and as colleges grow in size and complexity they attract a larger...
...case, it is this fundamental difference that explains the deep-seated antagonism between the two student bodies. Harvard, conscious of a maturer point of view, regards Princeton a little patronizingly. Princeton, conscious of the strength that comes from her greater emotional solidarity, greets Harvard with the spirit of the victor. It will take a graduate engineer in Fatherly love to bridge that gulf. Judge...
...Associated Harvard Clubs, representing Harvard organizations and Harvard men from the four corners of the earth and beyond the seven seas, greet you with assurances of profound respect, unqualified admiration, and boundless affection for one who combines the unconquerable spirit of youth with calm serenity of matured and trained judgment--to us the first of living Americans...
This evening at 8 o'clock in Emerson J. the fourth of the William Balden Noble series of lectures on "The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the Light of Psychology and Mysticism" will be given by the Reverend Dr. Charles E. Raven, Canon of Liverpool Cathedral...