Word: morale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...worth living for; and the man who has a philosophy which answers that question, whether his ideas agree with ours or not, has a true religion. We are Christians because Christianity is the religion which has given the most satisfaction to mankind. It is the man whose moral emotions move in the same way as his rational forces that lives the right kind of a life. We come to chapel as one way of expressing our religion, for experience teaches that worshipping together is best, just as when men get together and cheer, it increases their affection for the University...
...Harvard Philosophical Club. "The Place of the Feeling of Obligation in the Moral Consciousness," by Dr. Mary W. Calkins, Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at Wellesley College's in Emerson...
...earth at the equator. When men go wrong it is largely the result of circumstances or environment. The old prisons based on this mistaken theory only added to the criminal capacities of those who were confined within their walls. The effect upon the inmates was both physical and moral. Owing to the unhealthy surroundings the prisoners developed what was called the 'prison pallor" and the influence on their moral nature was equally pernicious...
...Under the new regime the men are dismissed in good health. Instead of the 'prison pallor' they wear a wholesome tan, and this difference in outward complexion is indicative of an entirely changed moral attitude toward the world in general...
...that the eleven cost him so many thousand dollars, the previous season, what is the inference? A definite, combined effort to end this situation on the part of seats of learning which value their own self-respect and bear at the same time some regard for the mental and moral status of boys whom they receive as students, would be attended by immediate results. An association of institutions solemnly joined in compact to end, with respect to themselves at least, the present situation as regards preparatory school football players, would be attended by salutatory results, and would do more...