Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highly informal spirit has characterized the conference which has been closed to the press in order to allow the invited delegates from public life complete freedom of expression...
...purpose of a House dinner is not to stimulate artificially that mystical thing, "House spirit," but rather to provide a weekly occasion when tutors, their associates, and several favored students can join for a few hours of dinner and common room talk. To the six or seven undergraduates invited it gives the opportunity of becoming better acquainted with their superiors, of participating in stimulating discussion of an academic sort. Conceived as such, the dinner is another fine tool for the machine of liberal education. Therefore the present obstacle to its application and extension should be removed by eliminating the restriction...
...seems to me that he is forgetting the spirit of this movement, for the hope is that many other educational institutions will follow Harvard's lead, and if this comes to pass, then a large proportion of the refugees will be given both their daily needs and a fair opportunity to assimilate themselves into American life and to become useful citizens. Everyone recognizes that the refugees must be provided for, but is it not better to do it by intelligent planning than by carting them over here and dumping them in the slums? Education for them is not a luxury...
Upstairs, where Charles higher-ups work in offices as cluttered as the back rooms of country stores, President George Ruckdeschel said he was "too low" to discuss the reasons why the store was closing. Low in spirit but not so taciturn was Chairman William A. Charles. Behind his roller-top desk, looking like a baffled and unhappy small-town grocer, this tall, grey-haired, 70-year-old son of the store's founder talked of Charles & Co.'s rise & fall...
When asked about the situation in China, he replied, "The Japanese will never subdue the nationalistic spirit of our people. This war has united China more than at any time previous...