Word: morale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...remedy exactly this defeat is the object of tonight's meeting. It is an attempt to make men realize two or three years before their Baccalaureate Sermon that Appleton has a positive moral influence which every man sooner or latter would regret having missed...
Though he does not find college athletics an unmixed good and believes that too few are able to indulge in them, and though he finds certain post-victory observances highly objectionable, he nevertheless finds them valuable for discipline and for moral restraint. He also enlarges on college spirit and the sportsmanship and gentlemanliness required of and usually possessed by both player and spectator as making athletics a positive good...
...honor, and breaking training is equivalent to breaking his word. Hence, the prevailing contempt of the act. This is as it should be. But why the breaking of mental training is any the less contemptible, we fail to understand. Perhaps the weight of moral responsibility is less imminent in the latter case, but the fact that probation permanently deprives the team of services which should be rendered, as well as failure to uphold one half of the academic contract, should more than outweigh any other argument in favor of the present universal levity...
...than a mere contribution box, and that the work carried on today includes more than supplying settlement workers, old clothes, and text books to charity. It includes a growing internal organization, with a gathering of the denominational groups, and also enrolls many men in Bible study classes where religious, moral, and other questions are discussed with a quiet freedom that has been of great benefit to more than one of those present...
...from a city with which I have connections. President Lowell contributes a brief introduction for the Register in which he points out the possibilities of the Council, and once again invites the co-operation of students in the great task of our beloved University--the formation of mental and moral character...