Word: moral
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Besides the moral growth that universal military service would bring about, much would be gained through the physical development of our young men. Out of every 1,000 men who were examined for the army, 271 were unfit for military service. In the 26th Division we had many cases of flat feet which made the men useless for hard military work. At the advice of one of my colonels who was an orthopedic specialist, these men were organized into a special training batalion. In eight weeks, 80 per cent of these supposedly unfit men were made physically sound and able...
...Because of the moral and physical benefits which our young men would gain from universal military service, I heartily favor its immediate adoption in this country. I beleve that the Field Artillery Unit at Harvard next year will be a big advance toward universal military service, and I approve of extending it to include other branches of the service, especially the Infantry...
There is more to the play than the obvious moral; that true sorrow takes refuge not outwardly but inwardly, and that death is faced in but one way by going on with our daily life and habits. The swinging of the door that gives entrance to the voice of the son, though we see no body; the way in which the voice moves about the room,--we are convinced by it all until the voice begins to tell how he died and mentions life after death. In that instant the picture is man made; we feel it to be mere...
...inspired to a high sense of their opportunities as well as to lofty ideals concerning their duty to their college and their duty to themselves. In principle, at least, no detail of curricular work is either slurred or minimized; the system is highly professional--and so with those moral aspects of university teaching whose tenets are an inflexible morality and a righteous spirit. All immensely worth while...
...demands and less exalted in its obligations are we not operating to defeat the primary purposes of essential university work as already set forth? In other words, does not a boy, whether he be a Varsity man or a member of a class or whatever team, receive moral and physical benefit from any game in which he may play in proportion as he is taught and inspired to play that game to the limit of his ability. Therein, I should say, we exemplify the American university spirit, or, to put it more broadly, the national spirit...