Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...fully appreciate that in a large institution situated as Harvard is that it is impossible to get the degree of intimacy, the degree of college or fraternal spirit which is characteristic of, and possible in a small college; but I feel confident that that spirit can be developed here to a certain extent--and that the men and the college would benefit greatly thereby...
...Student Council recommend to the proper authority that a certain day be designated as "Get-Together Day." On that day let the President and other members of the Faculty address the undergraduate body on the desirability--yes, the necessity of creating and maintaining this fraternal spirit. Let them urge (and request the different college publications to urge) that thenceforth each man speak to his fellow-student, whenever and wherever he meets him--whether in or out of the yard--but especially in the yard when going to and from classes. LUTHER W. SMITH...
...Hoover are arguments in his favor. The American people are tired of professional politicians and disgusted with party politics. The old party lines have broken down so far as the rank and file of voters are concerned, and in respect to principles both parties are bankrupt. Although the spirit of partisanship has rarely been more bitter or more brutal, and never since Secession has it been more inimical to the welfare of the country, the battle of these warring politicians is a fictitious conflict...
...parallel further he might well ask what there is to distinguish a Democrat like Attorney General Palmer from a Republican like Speaker Sweet of the New York Assembly. Both of them have set forth to establish a new doctrine of Prussianism which is a veritable crucifixion of the spirit of American institutions...
...chosen this year to represent American universities, as holders of the Rhodes scholarships should take to Oxford with them qualities which few have possessed in the past. Cecil Rhodes was a man of action and of vision and the spirit which led him to the Dark Continent and which enabled him to create the British Empire in Africa is the spirit which he would have liked to see embodied in those who should hold his scholarships at Oxford...