Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Space and time--and perhaps temper--are too short to prove anything beyond what has already been proved about Harvard democracy...
...back and blandly tell ourselves that we are acting for humanity when we do nothing, that we have been calm, deliberate and judicious, that we avoided creating a scene and did not give an unpleasant exhibition of temper. And in later years we can tell our children what a high-minded and unselfish part we played in the great war, how we held ourselves aloof and reaped many benefits. But could we ever escape the memory of the dead? Try as we would we could never forget them, and with most it would be in the future...
...days it was a simple matter to advise college students about their careers. Three professions--Law, Medicine, and the Church--lay clearly open before them, and they could freely choose according to their temper, inclination and necessities, moral and financial. In time came the engineering schools with their various sub-divisions, and of the normal and graduate schools preparing teachers for service in various grades of educational institutions...
...revolutionary temper of the day suggests the first opportunity. In the prevalent spirit of scorn for old prejudices and of aspiration toward unadulterated truth, the student can do what no earlier epoch of classical criticism has generally and consciously essayed: he can apply himself to the privilege of discrimination and seek to arrive at an ultimate valuation of the different works of ancient literature. The moment has at last come when we may disembarass the Classics of the glamour that the humanistic enthusiasm of the Renaissance cast over all things ancient, good or bad, and when we may hope...
...past year has brought about a great change in the temper and character of the University of Toronto. Last year, the students were engaged in the usual college activities, dallying with lessons and athletics; now they are engrossed entirely in the war and things military. Three-fourths of the news published in the daily undergraduate paper pertains to the European battlefront and eulogies on peace. A commissioned lieutenant is military editor of the paper. Intercollegiate athletics have been officially abandoned by a decree of the university's athletic directorate. Over one thousand graduates and undergraduates of the University of Toronto...