Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...only could win but had won. He said that on looking into the matter he could not learn of a man who had been permanently injured at either Yale or Harvard by foot ball. He believed in the game because to be a player a man must control his temper and be brave...
...editor of the North American Review, in his effort to be non-partisan, evidently believes in Bacon's advice concerning physicians: "Take one of a middle temper; or, if it may not be found in one man, combine two of either sort." Three Democratic and three Republican Congressmen therefore contribute to the symposium on "What Congress Has Done." The Republicans, McKinley, Lodge and Dalzell, are unanimous in saying that the last session has done wonders; the Democrats are as unanimous in deciding that Congress has done a great many things it ought not to have done and left undone...
...members of this Board knew Professor Bowen as a man of strong convictions and of eager temper, sometimes hasty of word in controversy, but as one who kept an abiding sense of justice. He habitually spoke his inmost thought. He could calmly defend an unpopular cause and he never hesitated to encounter the criticism that attends independent action...