Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...downfall. Miss Le Gallienne is also audacious. She produces an Ibsen play without a stage director. Autumn Fire, an Irish play and a fine one, is built around the character of a hale, old country gentleman, boldest horseman, keenest hunter, most ardent lover in the county. A too spirited mare breaks the stalwart frame. His own son, his own young bride break the vigorous spirit. These two move with Nature. They love, while the old dictator groans on his death bed, stubbornly believing himself invincible against the encroachments of time. The iron is driven, at last, into his soul. Broken...
...meeting of the Princeton Board of Athletic Control held this afternoon the Board voted unanimously to sever athletic relations with Harvard in all sports. We have been forced to the conviction that it is impossible at present to expect from athletic competition with Harvard that spirit of cordial good will between undergraduates of two universities which should characterize athletic sports. Unless athletic competition between college tends to introduce a feeling of generous chivalry and mutual respect, there can be no valid reason for its continuance Competition carried on in an atmosphere of suspicion and ill will of necessity falls short...
...CRIMSON commends Princeton for the stand taken by those in charge of Princeton athletic policies, as authentically stated in this morning's paper. For there is reflected in that stand a certain praiseworthy independence of spirit at all times commendable to them who truly respect the dignity of venerable and honorable institutions of American education...
...Princeton clubs combine--not to proselytize in their localities but to spread the ideal of self-education. Is it logical that these groups would permit ungentlemanly playing, derogation of scholastic standards, patronizing and supercilious behavior Could such cooperation exist if the feeling of small minorities represented the true spirit of the universities...
...views? I believe it lies in the fact that athletics have too long been considered a separate part of university life, that they were their own justification. The general public cares little about Harvard's and Princeton's plans of independent study Alumni, faculty, and undergraduates imbued with the spirit of true scholarship have left the management of football to specialists. This is well and good so long as these men confine themselves to the training of athletic teams. When, however, coaches, athletic committees, humorists, or reporters seek to interpret the relations of two great universities in the light...