Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...latest number Lampy has concocted a sort of repressed Christmas medley. As one turns the hushed pages of his humour one somehow cannot recognize it as being really an effect of Christmas. To be sure there is the mild "Sania" spirit; the Yule log sputters over and anon doggedly, but the whole is so very mild and chastened that one cannot help attributing it to sadness at an abbreviated Christmas vacation. Such, at least, is the key-note set by the leading editorial with its pathetic plea for a longer holiday, and each succeeding Christmas thought follows hard...
...have been winning with remarkable regularity. So it has been suggested that a Minor Sports Club be formed, membership being awarded to wearers of minor sports insignia. "The chief gain," to quote the Crimson, "would be a coordination to the end that all lesser sports be pervaded with a spirit now very much lacking...
...Princeton there has been no lack of enthusiasm in her minor sports and, at Yale, interest has always been kept up. Harvard, having let this spirit die down, has a hard task ahead of her in building it up again. Princeton's recognition with a Varsity letter of a championship minor sport team is a fair award which will prove a great incentive in the future. This, after all, is the best way of solving the problem. Daily Princetonian
...greatest need. A well-known financier lately declared it to be the foundation of that general confidence on which rests the stability of finance. A prominent business man a few days ago said publicly that what business most needs today is the infusion of the religious spirit. Industry today needs nothing so much as it needs the Golden Rule. And there is no corrective to lawlessness and social disorder to equal the sanctions of religion. Therefore when a man undertakes to be a teacher of religion, he is assuming a task that is fundamental to the welfare of our modern...
...Crofters is too thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the essay to adopt guch violent tactics even of matters of controversial interest. There is, for example, almost no subject, outside of the Irish question, more likely to arouse latent passion that educational theory. Does our author vociferate that the moderns are right and that the older method of hammering knowledge into resistant minds is the only true one? "The Teacher's Dilemma" never raised its tone above politeness, and yet it is of more value than much arguing. The same genial spiral marks the discussion of such other matters...