Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times over the number of graduate students at American universities, while bringing them to look upon their university residence and work as a penance to be endured. Such artificial rules . . . . . tend to destroy . . . that joy in learning and that zeal for inquiry which are the making of a university spirit. . . . Then, too, there is that tendency . . . to specialize so severely, as to make the student blind and deaf to the wonderful appeal of intellectual color and form which surrounds him on every side...
...forth that 13 of the 18 U. S. battleships cannot shoot as far as can 20 of Britain's ships, ten of Japan's; that to elevate the Oklahoma and Nevada guns to give them the same range as British and Japanese guns, would not contravene the spirit of the Washington Naval Disarmament Treaty (1923). Other
...Lindbergh, as usual, was surrounded by handshakers, notables, cheer leaders; was rushed to appointments. Nevertheless he stole time to examine famous airplanes at the Smithsonian: Langley's historic machine; the NC4 which flew the Atlantic in 1919; etc. To their number will be added the Spirit of St. Louis...
...Spirit has one more appointment before retiring to the cloistered calm of the Smithsonian. In January Col. Lindbergh flies to Mexico City on the invitation of Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican President...
...favorable impression thus derived was not dispeleld by the mysterious words "Hoosic-Whisick" appearing on the cover. They are strongly suggestive of the invigorating medium "college spirit," not indeed in any narrow sense--Yale too appreciates their worth!--but in its broader and more fluid aspect...