Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correct, almost one-fourth of our national income is spent in recreation. We spend it in hot-dogs, automobiles, movies, road-houses and restless movement; one of the largest items is the two-hour vigil at the shrine of football on autumnal Saturdays. The play we love with such spirit is often mechanical play. It is play where we sit huddled close together in darkened auditoriums watching a small lighted space where two figures pound or hug each other. We watch, but we do not play...
...they prefer to regard the Old and New Testaments as an allegory, an expression in literature of a great people. For that reason there is no argument for withholding the prophetic and inspiring writings of the modern age. The addition would, moreover, bring about the substitution of a fraternal spirit of humanity for an imperial deity...
...else again. At Harvard, proud of the freedom that makes liberalism its fetish and unorthodoxy its boast, there would be found but scant support for the latter opinion. It is all the more instructive to note this latest example of the dominion over contemporary minds still retained by the spirit of past centuries...
...from the cutting off of food in case of war. (This condition is the greatest one cause of Great Britain's insistence upon large naval armament, is the greatest one cause leading many British statesmen to feel they must preserve in their people a readiness for war, a martial spirit, year in and year out, in peace time as well as war time). Treating food as a contraband makes for war also among nations likely to be in the business of supplying food; the challenging and invading of what we deemed our rights as a neutral shipper caused President Wilson...
Here at the Institute it can readily be seen that the students do, think, and act in the same way as men attending academic colleges. We have athletics, publications, fraternities, dramatics, school spirit and traditions, social life; in fact everything that goes to make up a college. There seem to be no points that differentiate engineers from other students to such an extent that they should not be permitted to enjoy the advantages, if any, of a House Plan. --The Tech...