Word: moral
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With this in mind, many men in the University should give their moral and mental support to debating. If representative men, capable of standing up and talking cogent thoughts, will go out for the team, debating will be put on the basis it deserves...
Germany drinks beer; Russia vodka; France absinthe; England ale. The obvious moral is--If you seek peace and prosperity eschew the demon rum! I do not seek to emulate Mrs. Nation--the eminently illustrious "Hatchet Carrie," nor am I an embryo Anthony Comstock. Yet I believe in total abstinence for college men. However, the question of total abstinence is not necessary for the present discussion. It is an undisputed fact that to countenance Hogarthian over-drinking at smokers and dinners is to create an undesirable impression on the outside world and particularly in the minds of parents and boys...
...have noted with interest and sympathy the undergraduate letters on beer controversy that have appeared your columns. Recognizing that our influence can be only by way of moral airport, we wish to put ourselves on red as favoring the no-beer side...
...those educators who thus believe may be drawn from the reports that come of the effect of the war on undergraduates in the colleges and universities of the United States. President Meiklejohn of Amherst recently said that, judging by his own experience this term, teachers of ethics and moral idealism were to be forced by the students to answer deeper questions on living and duty than ever before had been put to them by youth...
...owners of Mexican property, no one in this country favors an aggressive foreign policy, but we are bound to protect our own rights and the rights of others whose interests we are pledged to safeguard. The events of the last few months have shown that no rights, moral or loyal, are safe unless backed by force. So long as international highwaymen exist and there is no international police to cope with them, peaceful nations must arm in their own defence. The present conflict will probably dispose of a few of the more notorious highwaymen, but there are others...