Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York's Congressman La Guardia issued the civil war warning, thus: "At some place at some time the wrong person will be shot and the people of that locality will retaliate. When that happens such a spirit may sweep this country that our people will rebel against this tyranny. Prohibition is not worth plunging the country into civil...
...will be preeminently the business man's journal of business news, vital and vivacious, informative and dynamic, with something American in its every characteristic. It will be keyed to the spirit of the new tempo in business...
...steel rods which has held Harvard men past and present together is Class Spirit. At no time is this better demonstrated than today. To place Freshmen in these separate units, to break them up into groups of seventy-five or 100 from each class would mean the death of the class as a unit. If may be argued that loyalty to one's house is to take the place of loyalty to the class. Such is not the intention of those advocating the House plan. The class of 1934 we hope will be just as much of a unit...
Furthermore class spirit as such would be extremely difficult to construct after all members of the Senior class have been split up into definite and isolated groups. A Freshman is generally eager to make friends; he enlarges his circle of acquaintance beyond that of his past schoolmates to that of his class as a whole. The Senior on the other hand, especially if he has lived with the same group for three years is not as ready to meet the boy from across the hall. He has his friends, interests, and he has divisional examinations to keep his mind occupied...
...time during the College year. Graduates of all classes are again in Cambridge in order to renew old associations and to keep up with the changes made in their absence. Harvard has long been distinguished for the unusual devotion of its alumni and perhaps at no time is this spirit brought more to the public notice than in the events of Class...