Word: fear
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...purpose of the organization is to conduct services among the large number of sailors in Boston harbor on Sunday who do not attend church in the city, either from the fear that their clothes are not suitable to wear at church services or from the feeling that they need the entire day for rest. The services were at first held on the wharves in the open air or on the vessels in the harbor. But it was soon thought best by the members of the mission to limit their efforts to the sailors at T wharf and to secure...
...made to improve the spirit of the game if the game itself is to be saved. You must not be afraid to make bold experiments and sweeping changes in the rules. If you are timid, if you are over-conservative, either from negligence or from fear of losing some temporary partisan advantage, the game, with all its splendid qualities, moral and intellectual as well as physical, will have to go. And on your shoulders will fall in large measure the responsibility for its loss...
...venture to speak in this way, because there seems to be in all football legislation a curious, inherent conservatism, which seems to fear radical changes far more than it fears that brutal spirit which only radical changes, not only in the rules, but in college public opinion itself can possibly cure...
...sought in any amendment of the rules. This does not mean that no such amendment should be attempted: far from it. Much may unquestionably be done by a strict enforcement of more severe rules, to prevent the recurrence of the most objectionable features of ungentlemanly football. The fear of penalties will prevent overt acts; it will not affect in the least the spirit which inspires the acts, and which must be killed if football is to live in the esteem which the game deserves...
...then take an example from Judge Hoar and follow what is best of these Puritan traits. Be simple, do your duty, and fear God, is good advice...