Word: temperance
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...effort with work, and to regard tension as something tolerable, if not natural. As a matter of fact no man should ever knit his brow as he thinks, or in any way evince effort as he works. The best brainwork is done easily; with a calm spirit, an equable temper and in a jaunty mood. All else is the toil of a weak or ill-developed brain straining to accomplish a task which is relatively too great...
...cannot be expected that such young men will stand upon ceremony in the hard struggles which are a part of the game, but our college players are not ruffians and they do not become brutes while playing. We cannot change human nature, and sometimes a player loses his temper or interferes with an opponent in an improper way without intending to play unfairly. The rules serve a useful purpose, and ought to be retained, just as some of the rules in the Harvard code for the government of students should be retained. Surely the existence of college laws against misdemeanors...
Exhortations delivered to Harvard freshmen are perhaps of no great practical value. Practical works and private energy are generally of the most effect here. A class soon exhibits its temper and gives in some unmistakable way very soon after its entrance unmistakable evidence of its spirit and enthusiasm. Its first class meeting showed that want of enthusiasm cannot be laid to the charge of the class of '87. Whether this enthusiasm will be turned into well directed energy and find its expression in the freshmen's contests in football, rowing and base-ball is yet to be seen. We have...
...distractions of that nature, the young women apply themselves more closely to their studies. Again, living on the hill is favorable to health and study. A run of a mile up hill to an 8 o'clock recitation after a hasty breakfast, with its concomitants of indigestion and ill-temper, is unknown to them. Sage College boasts a flourishing fraternity, or more accurately sorosity, Kappa Alpha Theta, which has chapters in several other colleges, most of them in the West...
...form of exercise is not good, as it produces nervousness. Swimming is, without exception, one of the finest of all physical exercises. It develops especially the lower portion of the chest, the legs and arms. Running, at a regular and fixed pace; boxing, to teach one to keep the temper under adverse circumstances; rowing, and canoeing, to strengthen the upper part of the thorax and chest, are useful. The benefit to be derived from regular practice in a gymnasium, by which the mind and nerve-centres are so trained that they have a certain amount of control over the body...