Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this country today a military force is retained which is barely enough to keep internal peace and protect the country against external aggression. The militant spirit is not taught but the qualities of best citizenship are instilled...
Professor Copeland, whose reading will take place in the Upstairs Dining Room of the Union at 8.30 o'clock next Tuesday night, will read from Kipling, Milne, Leacock, and Thackery. The exact passages are not announced as yet, but will probably be in the spirit of the Christmas season. The acoustics of the Upstairs Dining Room are better than those of the main hall and the Professor will insist on the doors being locked at 8.30 o'clock sharply to prevent interruption...
...Alma Mater. That there is considerable ground for this opinion, especially as regards the last-named feature, seems certain. A number of players who are now on professional teams and were stars on their college elevens have stated that they now play the game with a different spirit. The "society" feature which leads people who never sat in a college classroom to pay heavily for seats at the fashionable games would necessarily be absent from professional contests. But perhaps a different class might be attracted in equal numbers...
...what military science teaches, printed in another column of this paper, differ chiefly in their opinions of what constitutes a good citizen. Both men are quite agreed that military science as it is now taught produces soldiers, but while Mr. Lane contends that it also develops a militaristic spirit, Colonel Browning declares that the ultimate purpose is to produce good citizens...
...What is the greatest benefit of Harvard education at its best?" If one were asked this question, perhaps the truest answer would be: "The awakening of the critical spirit." To arouse this critical spirit in young minds which look upon truth as something fixed and established to be handed down from above by "those who know" and taken on faith; to change a student's mental attitude from one of receptivity to critical activity--these are among the benefits conferred by lectures of the type which at Harvard are common, though, to be sure, not universal...