Word: moral
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Talk of professional revolt and student mutiny continues to come out of Columbia, following the dismissals of Professors Cattell and Dana. Why? In most walks of life a man who fails to make good loses his job; and what failure can be more disastrous than a moral failure? No man can assail the national policy now without aiding Kaiserism. No man can counsel youth to disobey the law and expect to escape the consequences. New York World...
From that dim age when the gay college boys observed the day of rest in a three-hour sermon, a longer dinner, and the remainder of the time in reading Numbers, recreation on Sunday has been in the moral eyes of the righteous the next thing to uncleanliness, and far worse than fratricide. Unending generations of college men have striven for ways whereby the boathouses, the tennis courts, and the athletic fields might be opened. And for all their striving, there is perhaps as much relaxation around Harvard Square on the Sabbath as there was in the time of John...
...equal fortitude. The mortality among those who do not strive to inflict wounds, but to heal them, has been notably great. There is chance here for our young men of spirit to accomplish at once a brave and a noble work. The medical staff has no room for cowards, moral or physical. However, medical students are not cowards, either moral or physical, or they would not undertake the work they have...
...this spirit of wanting to get in to Government service, may easily be come a kind of hysteria. It is hard to withstand the inclination to follow the line of least resistance. It will take real moral heroism for many men to hold steadily to their present duties. They owe it, however, to themselves, their parents, their friends and their country...
...loyal service to freedom and fair-play and all that England aspires to be by publicly denouncing the Boer War and boldly refusing to countenance or further it in any way. Such a group of men, if we had it, and if they were sincere, would be of tremendous moral value in our community today. In those who believe, however, rightly or wrongly, that the war with Germany is wise and just or, if not wise and just, then inevitable, or if not inevitable, then at least much the lesser of two great evils (and this ought to include every...