Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Scholar's virtue; and if he lets his feelings or his devotions to an end--however otherwise desirable--make him neglectful of truth on any occasion, he forfeits, for the occasion at least, his scholarship. Secondly, intemperance is not more necessary to vigorous and successful action than the ill temper, the arrogance, the egotism, the ignorance, by one of which it is generally caused...
...hoped that we shall all carry to the game on Soldiers Field this afternoon the friendliness and good temper that marked the football game with the Indians last Saturday. A difference of views on the eligibility of one member of the Pennsylvania team should not be allowed to spoil the contest or to de ract in any way from the satisfaction and pleasure of our visitors in case they win the game. They will be our guests for a few hours and I am quite sure that no misunderstanding or dispute will mar our hospitality...