Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...league by good, heady playing against some of the best teams in the North, and this year the record on the southern trip gives promise of similar success. Such victories won by a team in the face of discouraging lack of interest show the same kind of spirit which has made Harvard comparatively successful recently in the more popular branches of intercollegiate sport. We do not like to appear with the time-honored and conventional formula, "We urge every member of the University to support the team," but we believe that la-cross deserves more attention than it now receives...
...Like Odysseus, Mr. Blythe communes with his soul and dreams brave dreams. Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez writes in honor of the memory of Walter Pater in words which suggest Pater's style, though the title to the verse is not quite happy. Mr. Ward Shepard writes seriously on "The Spirit of Traherne." Traherne is unknown to so many of us that Mr. Shepard would have done better to have made his essay more of an exposition. Mr. Grandgent Fils tells a story of war and love with realism and a sense of humor. In "The Winged Stone" Mr. Reed retells...
Tonight he is to speak on "Education as a Career," a subject which no one is better fitted to discuss than he. From a small New England university, Harvard has been made a great national institution through his untiring efforts, and the whole spirit of education throughout the country has been improved by his ideas. President Eliot has won eminence in many fields; in education he is pre-eminent. This chance to hear him is a rare privilege...
...attacks of the clergy did not cease with "Le Tartuffe," nor after the death of Moliere, who all through his life continued the struggle in the conviction that he was the leader of the new forces and was supported by the court. The spirit of "Le Tartuffe" harmonized with the great festivities of the year 1664, when Moliere was at the apogee of his career as grand master of ceremonies...
...tomorrow, the first in the morning at 9, the second in the afternoon at 2.30, and the third in the evening at 7.30 o'clock. Mr. E. C. Jenkins, of the international Y. M. C. A. committee, will speak at 9.30 o'clock this morning on: "In what spirit should I approach religious difficulties?" At 7.30 o'clock he will speak on: "How can I help men to interpret the call...