Word: morale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nothing to a man who can see a few immediate dollars farther than he can his own honor and future pleasure. But we venture to say that to almost every Senior the crime of speculation begets a penalty awful enough to keep him from it whatever may be his moral inclination. New Harvard men should take this to heart and shun the speculator who comes out from town with his pockets lined with gold. Once blacklisted, all the gold in the world cannot get them tickets to Harvard games again, and no amount of repentance can return to-them their...
...students could say that, though Chapel was not compulsory at Harvard, they liked to go to the services and generally did because they were inspiring and because the best men went. We all of us willing to do what is "au fait" but few of us have the moral courage to do a thing unless it is strictly conventional. Here is the chance for the fortunate ones with that courage and the personality to back it to conventionalize attendance at Chapel until it can stand alone...
...authority on that subject, and an authority means a leader in thought. Any man who has the force of character can accomplish much. But without force of character, which means earnestness, determination, persistence and industry, talent is of little value of any kind, and any man who has those moral qualities will accomplish more than he or his friends ever dreamed was within his reach...
...Junior year. "There is," says Professor Thorndike, "every reason to believe that of those students who did yet worse in their entrance examinations, and so were shut out, a fairly large percentage would have done better in college than a third of those who were admitted." It is a "moral attrocity," he believes, to depend upon such a fallible system...
...very forcible way the view that Bergson's philosophy is not the best food for Americans of today. Bergson is a mystic, and America needs dogmatism. Americans "need to be taught how to think, and not, as M. Bergson would teach them, how to feel." "The intellectual, moral, and social progress which the American civilization is bound to make its own, as a crown to the material progress it has achieved, must be won of thought...