Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Temperence is not Total Abstinence. There can not be temperance in any use of something which harms the human body. Even a single glass takes the edge off the mind. Tippling saturates and deadens all the vital organs. There is always a day of reckoning, sooner or later. There is one thing that should always be borne in mind and that is Total Abstinence is easy although temperance is impossible...
...speed, precision and force, individual resourcefulness and power of cooperation, all go to make up the good player. The game is preeminently adopted to the work of building up good physique. It does not demand much brute force. It calls into use more muscles and functions of the human body than any other field game played today. Legs, arms, shoulders and chest are continually in use. It is particularly good as a lung developer. Lacrosse is admirably fitted to afford needful exercise to the average student...
What we do need most of all is a clear and definite conception of human character; a revelation of ideal life which shall have the stamp of authority. We want the manhood that will bear the test of the universe and that shall make uslive to make our fellow men wiser and better. We must find somewhere and somehow an infinite companionship...
...this poem beyond the delight, we gain strength and consolation, and if these serve the purpose of helping man in the struggle of life, then never has their function been better fulfilled than in this work of the loftiest of the human poets...
...world can afford to sacrifice the lives of men for commercial gain, it can much more easily afford to make similar sacrifice upon the altar of vigorous and unsullied manhood. The question of a life, or of a score of lives is nothing compared with that of moral purity, human self-restraint, in the interests of which, among college men, outdoor athletic sports contribute more than all other agencies combined. As a matter of fact, the statements concerning bodily injuries incurred contain gross exaggerations. If athletics have been prostituted by gamblers and pugilists, let the college world come...