Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...CRIMSON believes it worth while to call the attention of the University to the Phillips Brooks House Association. We are all aware of its existence, and we stand for its fundamental aims; but we tend to forget that it is no mere self-operating mechanism. Upon its temper and efficiency is staked the reputation of Harvard in more than one place, yet its usefulness is great or small according only to the intelligence and energy of the support which it receives from the student body...
...merit endeared him to workers in many fields. He was a just censor, a wise counsellor, not sparing of himself if he might help others. His critical instinct was distinguished for its delicacy, his taste refined to severity, his judgment clear and sober. His mind was ripened into the temper of a true cosmopolitanism by study of the best books, by knowledge of his own and of other countries, and by acquaintance and enduring friendships with leading men of letters. He bore his learning with a grace that was peculiarly his own. Simplicity, sincerity, gentleness, courage, generosity, and unfailing courtesy...
...advanced by Professor Royce in his notable contribution to the unending discussion of the ethics of football. As to the candor and suggestiveness of the presentation all readers will agree. Taking the development of loyalty as the test of the ethical value of the sport, Professor Royce examines the temper, not of the players but of the spectators. Extravagant publicity, distracting and confusing social influences, many of the evils of the mob spirit, are undeniably present. It is not so clearly demonstrable that the game, under present conditions of attendance, favors "in the mass of spectators a loyal life...
...Phillip N. Waggett, of London, author of "Religion and Science," "The Scientific Temper in Religion," etc., will lecture in St. John's Memorial Chapel, corner of Brattle and Mason streets, this afternoon, at 4.30, on "The Church and Modern Thought." All members of the University are invited to attend...
...Chapeau d'un Orloger" is a humorous play, filled with ridiculous situations in which the butler, the chief actor, places himself. He has broken a very old and valuable clock and, fearing the irritable temper of his master. has bribed the chambermaid to say nothing about it, and also to secure a clockmaker to fix it. The clockmaker comes and examines the clock, but on his departure leaves his hat. The butler hides the hat, but it is found by another servant and brought, to the master, to whom the butler tells many lies to clear himself. He again hides...