Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain professions than can be absorbed by them without a consequent lowering of the standards of remuneration. Recognition of this condition is necessary to prevent serious loss, but Mr. Clark's bureaucratic demands for state control of the number of professional students are too manifestly contrary to the American spirit of educational freedom for any real consideration...
...Vagabond was pleasantly surprised to learn that Sophocles' tragedy Electra was being presented at Eliot Hall, Jamaica Plain. There he found the ancient drama excellently played against a background of temple and poplars, with a cast directed by a former member of the 47 Workshop. With the altruistic spirit typical of better-class Vagabonds, he sought information as to how this might be enjoyed by other students, and discovered that performances will be given this evening and tomorrow at 8.15. Students may secure tickets at the door for one dollar. The method recommended for the untaxied is to take...
...Socialists!" warned Mr. Baldwin-and by these he meant the leaders of Britain's second largest party (Laborite) -"The Socialists with their program of nationalize major industries would stifle the spirit of British enterprise. They would reduce our people to a dead level. They would make them as marionettes dancing to the dictation of officials-a dance of death so far as progress in our nation is concerned. They would make a bureaucratic machine and drive out of this country men of enterprise in whatever class they might be, who would go to the United States or the Dominions...
...playwright's Katerina is a wife unjustly suspected at the start. Her husband attempts to kill her because of his belief that she is unfaithful. The shots stir in her a spirit of rebellion which sends her out, in spite of a reconciliation, to defy him. In the playwright's mind she sinks lower and lower. That, however, is against a background of Victorian moral standards. What would happen to Katerina in real life in 1929 would make an entirely different play. Andreyev deals with the Russia of before the War. That Russia is gone, so much...
...optimistically the writer of the present article approaches the question of what can be done to provide new life for the dying college "lit". His conclusion is that the college Pegasus of the future would do well to concentrate its entire attention upon interpreting the life and spirit of the university...