Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FORTUNE appears to give its fascinating picture of the beauty and power of business. What does that mean? Perhaps it means that the all-embracing term "business" may be drawing to itself the fine spirit of sportmanship and the beauty of the arts. Then too, the magazine will not be the spokesman of the few lifted on the shoulders of the many, but will reflect this great cooperative effort known as business which is every day learning that its highest success can only be attained by making everybody healthy, wealthy and wise...
...World opinion has always regarded industry in the United States as a well-knit organization of high-pressure business, a crystallization of the pioneer spirit exemplified in its scientific management and efficient business methods, leaving the country little time for the cultural aspects of life. Whether or not this criticism would stand severe scrutiny, the American scholar has usually resorted to England or the Continent for any specialized research into the learning of the past ages and the cultural trend of the present. Once more America goes abroad, this time, by aiding the British government in a reorganization...
...modern girl with short skirts and short hair (this was written last year), but a long line. They have an intimate acquaintance with a cigarette, have heard of a pocket flask, and choose their courses according to the unmarried status of the professors. They show a fighting Irish spirit in maintaining two or three or four strings to every bow. (He means four beaux to every string). They are not bad company...
That is to say, the undergraduates typify the spirit of a school. You are not a Harvard man if you are an alumnus of another school and do graduate work at Harvard. Yet I believe that the unsurpassed excellence of the graduate school makes Harvard Pre-eminent scholastically among American educational institutions...
...Quadrangle Plan, have been the first to attempt a comprehensive solution. Thanks to Mr. Harkness, they will be able to sub-divide their unwieldy undergraduate bodies into groups capable of functioning as social units. This implies a frank recognition of the value of that ephemeral something known as "college spirit"--and also a realization that increase in size has resulted long since in its practical extinction as a force unifying the whole student body. The same growth has killed its successor, "class spirit...