Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Birds," as the hero himself is appropriately styled by his fellow, is the incarnation of the spirit of youth. Though preserving among hundreds of his own type an individuality at once winning and intriguing, Robin is a capital example of that type of Englishlad who left the playing fields of Eton and Harrow, the clositered seclusion of Oxford, or the placide reaches of the Cam to fling his life, a care-free sacrifice, on the altar of England's glory...
...conclision, though hardly startling is done in a masterly manner. It is good for the soul in these times of cloying commercialism to think back now and again to the days of consecration and high resolve, before the deepest shadows of war shut down upon the world. The spirit, of those not far distant days, now so hopelessly lost, forms they very essence of the latter pages of "Robin Linnet...
Among the public institutions that have been receiving the benefit of the critical spirit of this decade is the college. Radical organs fill their editorial pages with denunciations of "this stronghold of capitalism" and insist that American educators have given their freedom in exchange for pitiful salaries and are but "the tools of the ruling class." On the other hand, reactionaries are as loud in their accusations that the colleges are the strongholds of menacing economic theories and are "full of parlor-bolshevists...
...third anniversary of the day on which the United States entered the war, April 6, 1917, is at hand. The spirit in which we joined the Allies is not forgotten, in spite of all the disillusions of the past year and more. It was the spirit which the youth of Harvard themselves carried into the war, the spirit in which many of them laid down their lives. If there is ever to be a Harvard commemoration of these men, can there be a better time for it than April 6, 1920? This will be but two days after Easter...
Little attempt is made at Harvard to develop "Class Spirit." After the Freshman year, the undergraduates drift into certain groups, guided more by congeniality than any though of Class. This is entirely natural, and is the best way of forming friendships, but it leaves the Class at the end of the Junior year with little unity. To allow this condition to continue after graduation would be regrettable, as the Class is the strongest link between the graduate and the college. Class reunions and dinners are what bring him back to Cambridge and keep him in touch with Harvard...