Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article is a speech by Dr. S. P. Duggan, a Director of the Carnegie Institute and the Institute of International Education, given at the conference of the National Student Federation of America which was held last week at Ann Arbor, Michigan. In his speech Dr. Duggan compared the spirit of education in Europe and the United States, and urged the formation of junior colleges to give present Freshman and Sophomore years in affiliation with a few great universities...
Compares European Spirit With Ours...
...would be a very interesting study to compare fully our college with the lycee and gymnasium from many points of view. My time will permit me to consider but two, and the first of these is the spirit that animates the European institutions as against that which animates ours. The French lycee and the German gymnasium is a place of hard work, not merely hard work but of real grind. The curriculum is almost wholly prescribed, the long day is almost wholly given over to lectures, recitations and laboratory studies and the day's work is followed by lessons which...
...from last year's team who are shaping up well. Among the new recruits to the University team might be mentioned Joseph Lifrak '29. Captain of last year's Freshman team; and P. S. Rand '29, a man, who, although without previous experience, has the punch and the spirit to make a good grappler in the middleweight class. But the team needs substitutes. Coach Lewis announces, and now candidates would still be welcomed...
...discloses the populace in pursuit of a witch, made fearsomely real by Mme. Ouspenskaya; Act II: Anne's growing consciousness that she too is of the devil's tribe. Just as the crisis begins to crys tallize, the medieval conception of passion as the spirit of Lucifer takes hold. Immediately, the audience is persuaded to see Anne not as a witch but as a woman of more than ordinary emotional capacity. Even the murder of her husband is extenuated by a plausible explanation of heart failure. Hence, confusion. There is a catastrophe, but it is not so much...