Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Confidence reigned among Dartmouth followers last night. The big Green eleven, still smarting from its defeat by Yale, was not burdened by over-confidence, but was filled with a fighting spirit that boded ill for the Crimson...
This afternoon, Professor Gilbert Murray will offer an opportunity for cultural research rarely given to students. At 4.30 o'clock in the Common Room of Straus Hall, he will give an informal talk on the subjects of his last two lectures: The Molpe, "the worship of the spirit of beauty", and The Drama, and will discuss questions connected with these...
...poetic inspiration, and all great poetry since early times had been under direct influence, and owed its greatness to the amount of its faithfulness to the tenets of that tradition, which were ecstatic adoration of primal beauty, not for the beauty itself, but for the appreciation of the transcendent spirit behind it, the spirit that has been felt by all generations of poets, and which is itself the fountain spring of all poetry...
...second lecture, on "The Molpe," Professor Murray touched on the Greek ritual of song and dance, which went under the name of "molpe," and which he defined as worship of this spirit of beauty. The ecstasy to which contemplation of this spirit raised the worshippers was such that mere words were too weak to express it, and movement was the natural means sought as a vent for the emotions...
...kindly German business friends. She had been formed for distinction, for surroundings of ease and dignity and charm. Childless, she needed scope to spend herself without stint on her friendships, for she had that concentration of affection which makes individuals of its most commonplace objects and the constancy of spirit which keeps attachments with fine people inviolate in their highest mood. Deathly poor and dying bitterly, long after her bright New York days, she spent gold pieces, hoarded in an old glove, that masses might be said for her gracious friend, Madame Modjeska, years dead...