Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exists in order to cram dull facts down their unwilling throats, and the faculty take that attitude for granted. When, however, a report appears like that of the Harvard Committee, it demonstrates the existence among students of real interest in education, and indicates the possibilities inherent in the cooperative spirit in which it was issued...
...fact I would go so far as to say that drinking as it was done at the University in pre-prohibition days was even beneficial. It brought about a spirit of comradeship and opportunities for social gatherings largely lacking at present; and, above all, it taught men how to act when, so to speak, they 'had a little bit aboard...
...Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary has grown the Yitzchok Elchanan Yeshivah, in which there will be the first Jewish college ever established in the U. S., equipped to grant "the same academic degrees as other American colleges in a background thoroughly Jewish and thoroughly American in spirit...
...Since the Great War we have had a tidal wave of occultism. Spiritualism- with all its paraphernalia of ouija boards, trumpets, dark cabinets, materializations, automatic writings and spirit photographs-the laying on of hands, deep breathings, vegetarianism, fastings, formulae of monotonous sayings of the genre of Coue's, with its smug 'Every day in every way I am getting better and bet-ter'-these are those rivers and tributaries that feed the encroaching sea of modern occultism. It is the business of the church to take her stand upon the sayings of the Master to the effect...
...determined and proceeded to study medicine in London. That great wen upon the globe was stirring with the germs of Socialism when young Ellis, preceded by a burst of beard which he never later relinquished, returned to it (1881) robust and whole in mind, body and spirit. He looked in at some meetings of the Progressive Association (forerunner of the Fabians); even compiled a Socialist hymnal omitting God's name; but lost active interest when an economic emphasis was put upon the movement. The young doctor-artist's concern was to become tactually, factually, acquainted with the physical side...