Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Critics of intercollegiate football are fond of stressing the commercialism that the enormous popularity of the game has injected into college athletic. But we have never seen it properly blamed for the extravagant sentimentality which is associated with the thing called college spirit. How could one die for dear old Rutgers except in an intercollegiate football game? Baseball, track, ping-pong, checkers--these hardly call for the lethal effort. One doesn't feel like debating or swimming "for God, for Country and for Yale." It is intercollegiate football alone that brings the rah, rah business so close to tears...
...pronouncedly as audiences do in some places, for instance, New York. But New York audiences are deceptive in that they do not represent the citizens of that city. The people you play to in New York are excursionists from all over the country, and they have the excursionist spirit. But the real New York audience, the one you get on Saturday night can be as blase and as cold...
...heights that would have been unattainable for each single. Gilbert and Sullivan were the perfect union of sense and sound. Sullivan's music matches wit for wit, and gibe for gibe, with Gilbert's book and lyrics. There is not a note which is not in harmony with the spirit of the words; not a lyric or a verse which does not tell the story. In Gilbert and Sullivan you won't find any padding, stuffing's, or irrelevancies, and that is why their plays have endured so long...
Speaking of athletics, Mr. O'Hara paid tribute to the fighting spirit displayed by the football team last Saturday. "Although Harvard was nosed out by Dartmouth last Saturday--by a rhinoceros nose--I think that athletics are now on a sounder and more honest basis than was the case ten years...
...University Committee on Eligibility shall have power, however, to grant permission in advance to a student to engage in athletics whether during term time or vacation, as the representative of an organization not connected with the University, under such conditions, not at variance with the spirit of the rule, as it may approve. It may also decide cases involving unintentional, technical, or trivial violations of the foregoing rules, which are intended to prevent discrimination either in favor of or against a student because he is an athlete...