Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...notice of change and appreciation of conditions. If she is sluggish, men will go elsewhere for their ideals; if she caters too readily to the impatient haste of the day, men will no longer be inspired by her. The importance of keeping their curriculum in complete accord with the temper of the age merits this arduous task before the universities...
Fine in tone and temper and a soldierly example is the brief speech of Major General Leonard Wood at Camp Mills to the officers of the 89th Division: the men he has trained...
...forces of Americanism and good government everywhere. New York is our representative city, it is of national interest that it be well governed. The fact that the campaign hinges on the forces of Americanism versus Hearst, Hylan, and Hohenzollern makes the result a test of the temper of the American people...
...LeBaron Russell Briggs--In Harvard's service from his youth up, dean of the college, president of Radcliffe, serene of temper and of a high spirit, distinguished in administration, his writings full of wit and sense, Dean Briggs has been a power for righteousness in many college generations. A friend of Yale and a friend of all the world...
While there is no possibility of the national bond issue failing, since the temper of our people is what it is, yet it rests on each man to see that he measures up to the temper of his people. It is the rule of democracies that what is everybody's business is nobody's business; and the overwhelming success of the Liberty Loan being in strong measure everybody's business, there is always the possibility that each individual will leave the task of successfully concluding that business to the indeterminate "public...