Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Borah and Representative Tinkham have their way, all the fire works of nullification, states fights et al will be revived after an unbroken, if often troubled, slumber of nearly a century. Andrew Jackson's spirit doubtless smiles faintly, as it observes the dismay that spreads cloudlike over the visages of presidential candidates cornered by these two assiduous members of Congress. To be asked about the Eighteenth Amendment was bad enough, but with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, never mentioned except in the appendices of school histories, unearthed and held as a mirror to the poor candidate, one ceases...
When the Glee Club, a few years ago, left the safe and easy road of college singing organizations, and ventured to cut its own way through a jungle of opposition, active and passive, the scoffers were many. The purpose of a glee club was to keep up the college spirit, by a hearty, full-throated chorus of football and Alma Mater songs, with a few compositions regarded as sufficiently light and gay to please the ears of a gathering of people not overly interested in music...
...purpose of the Tau Beta Pi is "to mark in a fitting manner those who have conferred honor upon their Alma Mater by a high grade of scholarship as undergraduates, or by their attainments as alumni; and to foster a spirit of liberal culture in the Engineering Schools of America...
...prize to the victors will undoubtedly have a marked effect in awakening the competitive spirit of ranking scholars, but the honor of representing dear old Harvard or Yale on the literature team can hardly have the same appeal as being on the football squad. We have debating teams, yet they have somehow failed to trail the clouds of glory attached to athletics. It is disconcerting to have the issue confused by a material reward which represents a form of commercialization not quite in keeping with the amateur spirit so zealously preserved in other intercollegiate contests. --New York Evening Post...
...proposal was endorsed only after a spirited debate. The adoption may be taken as indicative of the strong anti-war spirit of the great majority of the delegates...