Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the two countries are worlds apart in spirit and institutions, the pact was signed and sealed last week not at one more Conference but at the musty but sumptuous old Quai d'Orsay. A Red with the same surname as Catherine the Great's spectacular paramour, Soviet Ambassador to France Comrade Vladimir Potemkin, signed with earthy, peasant-born black nostriled French Foreign Minister Laval a formal Treaty of Mutual Assistance important in itself and epochal in its implications...
...Englishmen." German-atrocity stories spread like tares. A group of U. S. war correspondents (Harry Hansen. Irvin Cobb, John T. McCutcheon et al.) who had been caught by the German advance in Belgium and went on with the German armies sent a combined cable to the Associated Press. ("In spirit fairness we unite in declaring German atrocities groundless . . . unable report single instance unprovoked reprisal . . . investigated rumors proved groundless ... to truth these statements we pledge professional personal word.'') But when the Bryce Report on atrocities w:as issued by the Allies, its findings carried much greater weight...
...obviously futile to point out, much as one might like to, what the alumnus body should or should not do. But insofar as the alumnus reflects the spirit of what our colleges have been in the past, any effort to analyze them should aid us in our probe of the privately endowed colleges...
...than an asset. It is no empty stereotype that has pictured them as contributors to the volume of the college cheers, rather than to the cultural activity and educational advancement of their alma maters. This perennial collegiatism cannot be blamed on the earnest graduates so much as the empty spirit that has pervaded so many of our campuses from the beginning of the century. It is another example of the lack of perspective with which past generations of college men have been imbued...
There are few finer characteristics developed in undergraduates than loyalty to their college. Too often this deteriorates into a narrow, blind loyalty, in which the grads active interest in the college tends to be restricted to an attempt to preserve the spirit and atmosphere of the college as they knew it. This naturally leads to stifling conservatism which resists radical innovations in educational policy...