Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college year classes cease for one day while fewer people cross the Yard and more group pictures are taken on Widener steps. Few, if the truth were known, have really left the environs of Cambridge. Most are in their rooms wishing, in the emotional voluptuousness of the holiday spirit, that it were a weekend so that they might have a vacation...
...story of the Baptist-Prophet, is undoubtedly fraught with emotionalism, and the intensity of feeling, the suffering and anticipation which permeate the facts of his life, and the lives of his followers, were in some measure caught by Sudermann. The Repertory version catches even less of that spirit. Melo-drama vies with the ridiculous, approaching farce, where only dignity and religious feeling were intended. The mania for making the unreal appear real, for putting Hamlet in plus fours, can amuse but hardly impress. Perhaps there were wise-cracking merchants in Israel but we can't believe they had Irish-Mayfair...
...your manners are bad. You are flippant and you have no compunction in saying things which you know are offensive to a large and intelligent group of your readers. You take advantage of the attractiveness of your paper in other respects to exhibit an unfair and contemptuous spirit toward Catholics...
...venture of Mr. C. C. Pyle and his partners in this crime against the untainted amateur spirit will not, it is predicted, meet with the success that had been predicted. There was no scrambling for the balls, players were not besieged for autographs. Mademoiselle Lenglen and Mr. Richards missed a trick by not sending tennis balls to the sick boy whose convalescence has recently been so materially aided by the receipt of a baseball from Mr. Ruth and a football from Mr. Grange. The Madison Square Garden audience showed no World Series fever and Mademoiselle Lenglen showed no temperament. Which...
Encouraged by the favorable comments which the Vagabond received last spring, it has been decided to continue it during the present year in the same spirit, making it much more elastic both in form and in content. Although resting primarily upon the basis of lectures given by members of the faculty of the University, lectures and performances not directly connected with the University will also appear...