Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fervent "patriotic spirit" in which this wholesale counterfeiting was undertaken came strongly to the fore last week as the trial of the counterfeiters drew to a close at Budapest. One of the accused, M. Szortsey, President of the Hungarian National Association, declared passionately...
That the college is capable of doing such a thing in such a spirit, that, in a crisis in a spectacular major sport, it can avoid the hysteria that is proverbially expressed in the phrase of the over-excited substitute: "Why, sir, I'd die for dear old Rutgers" is a sign that the attitude of the University in regard to athletics is well advanced in a metamorphosis that no one can regret. It is not that undergraduates are being drawn out of an interest in athletics: It is rather that their interest is being transferred from a false dependence...
...Arabian Nights and a portion of the spirit of Mohammed's fierce armies coming in contact with the dreary military regime of hand-salutes and travelling mess-kitchen and courses in tactics. Abd-el-Krim himself was responsible for no small part of this drama. Instead of merely dismissing unsatisfactory subordinates, he blew them from the mouths of cannons; he offered rewards for people's heads; generally he behaved as an Oriental chieftain should, and was not at all ridiculous, because he was successful as well. He is in the hands of his enemies now. Even though...
...general the CRIMSON is not partial to athletic rallies. When they are an artificial means of producing what is known as college spirit, a spirit which according to the advocates of rallies would not exist as it should, except for the rallies, there is no logical place for them in university life. If college spirit can be made to exist only through such means, no attempt should be made to foster it. Affection for and loyalty to one's university, be it in scholarship or athletics, which does not come naturally cannot be aggravated in any healthy way by rallies...
...psychological effect of the shake-up should be a healthy one. There has existed all season a courageous spirit among the rowers, but it was a well-nigh hopeless one. From now on the same spirit will exist with the important, indeed vital, difference that it will be hopeful...