Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just back from New Haven where we have seen the dreams that we hoped for Harvard realised of a sister institution. We did not go to hold a post-mortem, but to see the new spirit which has been breathed into an already live undertaking. The papers have told us of the hopes that Professor George Pierce Baker '87, but recently of Harvard and now Director of Dramatic Art at Yale, had for the art of the stage and the fostering of the higher ideals of dramatic art in our academic environment. During Mr. Baker's leave of absence...
...draw from. For three years, Harvard's fresh. man teams have gone through hard seasons without a single defeat being registered against the Crimson first-year aggregations and with the best of all this material at present included on the first squad, there is some reason for the spirit of optimism which prevails among Harvard people when they discuss the prospects for the coming ice season...
Students are also saying to the professors: "The funds of the college have hitherto been secured from alumnae whose emotions have been stirred by emotional appeals to the spirit of the old college. Future appeals for funds, if they are to come from us when we attain the dignity of graduates, will have to be based upon reason and upon proof of the need. Our affections for this our temporary place of residence, will probably be no less than that or our predecessors, but it is going to be of a some what different nature. We shall remember our college...
...graduate especially in a time like the present when faith in democracy as a form of political organization is apparently waning, not in dictator governed countries like Italy, Spain, Greece and Russia, but apparently in our own country. However, this desideratum will not be attained until a more serious spirit animates the life of the college and more generous attention is given to the serious problems of the political, social and economic organization of society...
...this be accomplished? That brings me to my second point. You remember that I promised to draw two lessons from a comparison of European and American education one, which I have just briefly discussed referring to the spirit of education. The other, that I shall even more briefly discuss, having to do with the organization of education. I told you that the last two years of the lycee and gymnasium were equivalent to the first two years of our college. In the European systems these two years are added to those which go before to form an institution...