Inasmuch also as the Spirit is something which guides and cannot be guided, these informal introductions appear in no geographic or historic sequence, but are necessarily left to the leading of the spirit, of which “no man knoweth whence it cometh or whither it goeth.”

E. A. S.

Grinnell, Iowa.

CONTENTS

[I]. The Herr Director Meets The American Spirit[15]
[II]. Our National Creed[35]
[III]. The Spirit Out-of-Doors[58]
[IV]. The Spirit at Lake Mohonk[74]
[V]. Lobster and Mince Pie[92]
[VI]. The Herr Director and The “Missoury” Spirit[112]
[VII]. The Herr Director and the College Spirit[129]
[VIII]. The Russian Soul and the American Spirit[147]
[IX]. Chicago[166]
[X]. Where the Spirit is Young[184]
[XI]. The American Spirit Among The Mormons[199]
[XII]. The California Confession Of Faith[216]
[XIII]. The Grinnell Spirit[237]
[XIV]. The Commencement and The End[249]
[XV]. The Challenge of the American Spirit[262]

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The Herr Director Meets the American Spirit