Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lectures which have taken place since the fund was instituted, many of them have been delivered by distinguished men. Some of the better known lecturers in the past include the Reverend Henry Van Dyke; Professor George Herbert Palmer '64, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, emeritus; the Right Reverend William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon; the Right Reverend Charles H. Brent, Bishop of the Philippine Islands, Theodore Roosevelt '80; Wilfred T. Grenfell; the Right Reverend Arthur Cayley Headlam, Bishop of Gloucester; and the Reverend W. R. Matthews, Dean of Kings College, London University...
...report states in conclusion, there remains very little doubt that the athletic ideals of the American colleges, the moral benefits and the development of true sportsmanship, are almost universally the hopes and beliefs of their proponents rather than demonstrated proofs. Winning is what counts and the means does not, except as an added assurance to that end. Any pronounced leanings toward anglican customs are, justly or not, generally looked at askance in this country. The English idea that it is better to lose a well-played match than win a sloppy one is one transatlantic attitude that might stand...
...Washington last week arrived a Filipino Commission headed by Manuel Roxas, Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, to plead before Congress for the islands' immediate independence, to take advantage of this new economic, rather than moral, sentiment for their liberation...
...commissions of investigation, soothing statements by the Viceroy, and several bombings, but nothing definite. For example: Nobody was killed last week when "persons unknown" dynamited the empty dining car of the viceregal train. (In 1872 a knife was stuck into Lord Mayo, only Viceroy of India ever successfully assassinated. Moral: A bomb?even the one which successfully exploded in the very howdah of Viceroy Lord Hardinge of Penshurst in 1912?is a poor weapon...
...Among them: that he called Vestryman Charles A. Brown "perjurer, liar, moral pervert, trickster;" that he attempted to extort $10,000 from Bishop Mackay-Smith under threat of publishing some of the Bishop's letters to him; that he committed assault and battery on one Anna Phillips; that he charged Parishioner Edward Matlack with being a thief...