Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...causes to which the Graduate Boards attribute the decline of active interest in competitions; the pressure of studies, which is making "grinds" out of undergraduates, and the glowing attractions of Boston ball-rooms and beaches and bootleggers. Nichols dismisses these superficialties, and feels the pulse of the old spirit of activity for the sake of personal glory, and finds its quiescent. He then arrives at the conclusion that the few faithful who report for competition do so because they want...
...Edwin A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia. Reason: "the spirit of liberalism, instead of cautious stand-pattism...
...estheticism (which he flays in his Dedication and Preface, not the least stimulating portions of the book), he presents a three-dimensional, unsentimental Villon, a sensual idler and criminal, weak, mercurial, but possessed of four stable virtues-faith, patriotism, filial love, gratitude. Somewhere this man's tortured, gusty spirit was luminous with great poetry...
...from Oxford declared in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter last night. "Coming over on the boat I had read several novels of College life in America, and I must confess that I proceeded to Harvard with the greatest trepedation. Oxford is tremendously amused at the so called 'College Spirit...
...converse enroute. One never sees students bustling around to a lecture with only a few minutes left in which to arrive there. Your Yard is often deserted but one may always see men strolling leisurely around our campus smoking and talking. There seems to be more of a spirit of comraderie...