Word: morale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...conditions of action, the explanation of the fundamental principles of the logic itself; Muensterberg, the learned psychologist, with a leaning toward the idealism of Fichte; Santayana, who seeks under action immobility, and under new phenomena the eternal; and Palmer and Perry wholly given to the study of moral questions...
...Moral Laxness in Athletics...
...conduct of students in athletic contests were always as generous and sportsmanlike as the conduct of Harvard students in the committee that has charge of those contests, much of the talk against athletics would die a natural death. For the real danger in athletics is not physical, but moral. If a case against them is ever made out, it will not be because they kill a man now and then (though the risk of physical injury should be studiously reduced); it will be because they appear at times to paralyze the honor of contestants and spectators. I write...
...another cause for the distortion of values. Undergraduates are prone to believe that athletic sports are a good measure of red blood, while high rank in studies indicates only industrious plodding. They often rate the two occupations much as savages do hunting and husbandry. That athletics develop essential moral qualities is undoubtedly true; but that is no sufficient reason why intellectual things should be undervalued; and it was the feeling that either out tests for rank were wrong, or that the students failed to recognize them at their true worth, that gave rise to the appointment of a special committee...
...fight a good fight every opportunity. Professor James has complained that the world is in danger of becoming too tame and of losing those manly virtues that were fostered by war. In medicine a man will find great campaigns waged which call for the highest sort of physical and moral courage...