Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Alumni of the oldest college in the land surrounding in their right of sonship the maternal board, the reflection that there nowhere exists for me an Alma Mater, gives rise to a feeling of regret, which the cordiality of your welcome and which your reassuring kindness can only temper. If the fact be recalled that but twelve out of twenty-one who occupied before me the chair which I now have the honor to fill, had the advantage of a collegiate education, a proof is presented of the democratic sense of our people and not an argument against the supreme...
...there is any truth in the proverb that the smell of the bullock's blood is apt to beget a savagery in the slayer, the sweet voice of our Katharine may not have been without avail in mollifying the asperities of temper - if he had any - in that young Surrey butcher, Robert Harvard...
...perennial Yale-Princeton squable in regard to foot-ball has begun. The Princetonian declares that the Yale men lost their temper during the convention in New York last week, and that such an action is greatly to be deplored because the present is one of the few cases on record when Yale has not had hes own way. The Princetonian further urges that as Princeton now holds the championship, Yale must come to Princeton if she wishes to contest the title to that championship...
...very unfortunate that anything should have occurred which would mar the good temper and spirit of friendly contest which has heretofore characterized the "amateur" ball games. The action of one of the nines in claiming a forfeiture on Monday last, when the game had been postponed by the manager of the university team, who possessed the right to do so, was uncalled for, and cannot be defended. The game will no doubt be played off to the satisfaction of both nines, and we trust that the result will be acquiesced in by all without any further discussion...
This mark of temper on the part of Yale is very discouraging. We had been led to believe that she would now take such occurrences as that of Saturday with good grace, and not attempt a slur upon the officers of the Mott Haven games, and we are sorry that we could be so mistaken. The charge made that the 100 yards dash was decided by but one of the three judges, is preposterous. To say that, in as close and exciting a contest as the one in question was, two of the judges were "not looking," must surely seem...