Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent CRIMSON editorial, declaring that the air in the Widener Library's reading rooms was not fit--to breathe, stirred the very heart and soul of one of Harvard's embryo investigators of nature to such an extent that, in a militant spirit, he advanced against the upper reading room, surrounded some of the doubtful air by vigorous charges of an atomizer in two one liter flasks, and bear a cautious retreat to Boylston Hall, holding tightly...
...when one realizes that collegiate humor is not confined to undergraduates but is typical of many classes of America, the Spokesman-Review's condemnation loses validity. Mr. Pickwick differs from Corey Ford and Crunkshank from John Held; each is admirable in his way because each represents a definite spirit. Intrinsically there is no reason why College Humor is not as funny as Punch, and the popularity of each in their respective countries only demonstrates the variances of national tastes...
...spirit is too weak--mortality...
...life and character of an outstanding man express the spirit of the community in which he has moved. Paul Revere Frothingham was the descendent from generations of Harvard men who moulded her fortunes in the days when she was a New England and Boston institution, that is, the days of Emerson. Lowell, and their contemporaries. He was the most brilliant successor of William Ellery Channing, the greatest minister of his time, whose religious doctrines exercised untold influence at Cambridge during the same period. His heritage was the heritage of liberalism...
...chief significance of this triple agreement is not however the proposals themselves, it is the spirit manifest behind them. Particular points in the program will soon be proved or found wanting by the simple process of trial and error. All three schools are in the first rank. Norman Batchelder, Principal of Loomis, is a former Harvard athlete, and Arthur F. Howe of Taft a former Yale star. Their influence is likely to prove decisive in the history of school athletics. They have, further-inore, set the pace for the colleges. Signs are not wanting that such agreements will be multiplied...