Word: mysticism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Princeton has had luck in many games of past years, not only against Harvard but against other teams. Not zoological mascots, nor prayers, nor beautiful New Jerseyites, nor mystic rights to the full moon, can break the strength of Harvard. The Crimson team goes into the game with fingers uncrossed, as her goal line will remain when the game is over...
...average Union member, imbued with that mystic something known as Harvard indifference, is doubtless largely responsible for this condition. But some blame may be laid elsewhere. Laxities in management, ever-absent bellboys, and somnolent waiters, all contribute. Most of all, the Union should be run by those whose interests lie there and not elsewhere, by men who use the building with some frequency. Its offices should not become rewards for all sorts of extra-curriculum activities. The CRIMSON calls to mind a recent election in which a man not even a member of the Union was nominated...
...incident goes, as it is told by Longfellow. Indeed some of the lines of the poem are incorporated into one or two of the spoken parts. The opening of the play is thus made very beautiful by the appearance of the "Spirit of Arcadie," who in a mystic forest setting recites, the lines, "This is the forest primeval...
Brickley, A. J., 10 Mystic St., Charlestown...
...number of the Monthly is further enriched by the presence of Mr. Lincoln MacVeagh's thoughtful discussion of M. Bergson and the American Character. He urges in a very forcible way the view that Bergson's philosophy is not the best food for Americans of today. Bergson is a mystic, and America needs dogmatism. Americans "need to be taught how to think, and not, as M. Bergson would teach them, how to feel." "The intellectual, moral, and social progress which the American civilization is bound to make its own, as a crown to the material progress it has achieved, must...