Word: spirits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...short interval during which he serves combines with the lack of pay to stifle the spirit of the Freshman Adviser. It is hardly worthwhile for either the University of the individual to formulate any real plan of action when the group will soon be made up of entirely new men. Under such conditions it is surprising that out of 150 Adviser's reports that were supposed to be submitted this month to one of the major departments, only seventy-five were actually handed in, of which eight turned out to be of any practical...
...away with an 8-0 victory at the Arena Saturday evening and avenged the 4-3 Tiger upset of six weeks ago. A playoff will be held in the Garden Wednesday evening but it should be little trouble to Joe Stubbs' skaters if they continue to show the same spirit and ability...
Stage history can be very fascinating if it be pursued in the right spirit. Dr. Noyes has tried to communicate this fascination to the reader, but the detail is necessarily so abundant, the subject is inevitably so remote, that the common reader, at any rate, will find the book bewildering and difficult to grasp. It is, of course, a book to be digested wholly, though people who are already familiar with Jonson may dip into it from time to time and seize information on their favorite play for future consumption. It is not a book to read at one sitting...
Thereupon, with a fine show of League spirit, the lady and gentleman secretaries from 58 nations followed their French Secretary General into what is to be the $10,000,000 League of Nations Centre. Through gusty, dusty corridors reeking with fresh paint and plaster, the Secretary General & Secretariat threaded their way among Swiss carpenters who eyed them with disfavor...
Glazounov's Eighth Symphony completes the program. This work, composed in 1906, is the last of the symphonies which the seventy-year old Russian has written. Unlike many of his countrymen, Glazounov does not give his music a pervasive tone of pessimism. Instead, he has acquired a spirit of optimism--a product no doubt of the comparatively easy and successful path along which the course of his life has run. To him, the problem in music is that of perfection, not of experimentation. B. G. Wells' description of the man who "walks backwards into the future" might easily be applied...