Word: temperance
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...cheered,--to see that intercollegiate contests shall not become detrimental to both participants and spectators? Without abating one jot of spirited emulation in testing one another's mettle, may we not pursue these contests in a spirit of fair dealing and mutual concession, without the loss of chivalrous temper, and with the cultivation of cordial relations and of a common esprit de corps...
...secularization of education would abolish the good as well as the poor religious schools. Also the measures would antagonize that part of the people who desire religious instruction for their children. Moreover the measure is an extreme one and as such would tend to excite the inflamable French temper...
...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...
...even temper, cheerful disposition, and high principles endeared him to all who knew him. Successful in whatever he undertook while at college, he was one from whom we all expected much, and whose loss we shall never cease to regret...