Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Examinations have an awkward tendency to interfere with the steady tenor of college existence. In place of placid efforts to keep up with the slow moving body of courses, there is a feverish spirit of review, rapid reenactment of the term's accumulated knowledge...
Furthermore, will the same gentleman advise me if he speaks officially or in the spirit of "the universal priesthood of believers" when he writes: "But if religion means an appreciation of the works of nature and a feeling of admiration for their creator which manifests itself not in blind worship of a concept set up by some one else but in a search for the true Ultimate whatever it be, the regard for the rights and opinions of the fellow men, the desire to lead good, clean, useful lives, and the feeling that each should...
...fact that his earliest reading had been in the classics, Zane Gray, Jane Austin and Octavus Roy Cohen. But the significant fact remains, gentlemen, that no romantic writer of his ilk could have existed west of Worcester without feeling the subtle and pervading influence of the fin desiecle spirit on his whiskey sours. Changing his verse every ten years, and here is a significant fact, that he never changed his underwear half so often as he changed his verse, convinces me that he was after all much more in the Neolithic tradition than was his friend and contemporary, the secretary...
...spirit of concord did not yet brood undisturbed over the Assembly. There were still charges and counter-charges to be heard that had been made during the year between the two extreme wings, and most important of all there was the report of a commission of 15, appointed last year to "find peace...
...share rooms. . . . The Oxonian reads alone in his study and freely discusses intellectual problems with his fellows. The Harvard man of today can find refuge from telephone, roommates and callers only in the Widener Library. He seldom discusses his reading with anyone and too often reads with the spirit of a clock-watching clerk-so many pages or chapters to be got through...