Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Exhortations delivered to Harvard freshmen are perhaps of no great practical value. Practical works and private energy are generally of the most effect here. A class soon exhibits its temper and gives in some unmistakable way very soon after its entrance unmistakable evidence of its spirit and enthusiasm. Its first class meeting showed that want of enthusiasm cannot be laid to the charge of the class of '87. Whether this enthusiasm will be turned into well directed energy and find its expression in the freshmen's contests in football, rowing and base-ball is yet to be seen. We have...
...distractions of that nature, the young women apply themselves more closely to their studies. Again, living on the hill is favorable to health and study. A run of a mile up hill to an 8 o'clock recitation after a hasty breakfast, with its concomitants of indigestion and ill-temper, is unknown to them. Sage College boasts a flourishing fraternity, or more accurately sorosity, Kappa Alpha Theta, which has chapters in several other colleges, most of them in the West...
...form of exercise is not good, as it produces nervousness. Swimming is, without exception, one of the finest of all physical exercises. It develops especially the lower portion of the chest, the legs and arms. Running, at a regular and fixed pace; boxing, to teach one to keep the temper under adverse circumstances; rowing, and canoeing, to strengthen the upper part of the thorax and chest, are useful. The benefit to be derived from regular practice in a gymnasium, by which the mind and nerve-centres are so trained that they have a certain amount of control over the body...
...very long since the Vassar students were publicly forbidden to kiss the professors' children, because not only the tempers but the features of said "infants" were endangered. Imagine the "temper" of anyone not a professor's child on being subjected to such an indignity...
...large an influence to Dr. Crosby's violent utterances against college sports. The press are already beginning to take the question up. A correspondent of the Boston Advertiser, who signs himself "A Victim," waxes very wroth over the subject. His letter is interesting as showing what is the probable temper of many outsiders in the matter. "For one," he cries, "I am rejoiced that at last a man of Dr. Crosby's standing has raised his voice to protest against an abuse which, as I believe, many have long wished to denounce. The plain language he uses about the mismanagement...