Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must not think, however, that the alumni have no further interest in the university once they have received their degrees. They are in spirit intensely loyal, and at least as much concerned as the alumni of American schools in the essential welfare of their colleges. They are not of the same importance in the government of their schools as are American alumni, however. On the court, which corresponds to an American board of trustees, they have not more than a representation of one out of every three members. The chief control resides with the faculty, a practice which...
...this year, it was announced last night. The series of six lectures, which are given annually, will begin this year, in all probability, before December 1, and be completed before the Christmas holidays. The general subject of the six addresses has been decided on by Canon Raven as, "The Spirit of God--Creative and Indwelling...
...attempted it knows how difficult it is to capture in prose the "inenubliable spirit" of a great institution like Harvard, to present its spiritual and physical aspects of another date. To any one who would learn the technique, as well as to any one who would find the perspective of the Harvard he knows today, I may commend Mr. Mayo's charming essay...
True, his analysis is not free from the distortion of international pique, a picturing of alien powers malignantly striving to reduce British prestige. But these spectres which after all are but half fictitious, Dean Inge accepts in a fatalistic spirit, quite contrary to the usual jingoistic anathemas. And thus his description of French hostility and American indifference to the English carries conviction where the poetic bitterness of Kipling...
...Tracy gives the best performance of his career as the show-off dedicated in spirit to a vaudeville dance at the Palace Theatre but delighted to serve in the McKeesport Opera House. Sylvia Field, late of The Little Spitfire, adorns the chorus as his honorably beloved, a good girl who "doesn't know her goulash." So vital is the background, so artfully sustained the suspense, that Broadway runs its entire length without one flagging moment...