Word: temperance
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...very long since the Vassar students were publicly forbidden to kiss the professors' children, because not only the tempers but the features of said "infants" were endangered. Imagine the "temper" of anyone not a professor's child on being subjected to such an indignity...
...large an influence to Dr. Crosby's violent utterances against college sports. The press are already beginning to take the question up. A correspondent of the Boston Advertiser, who signs himself "A Victim," waxes very wroth over the subject. His letter is interesting as showing what is the probable temper of many outsiders in the matter. "For one," he cries, "I am rejoiced that at last a man of Dr. Crosby's standing has raised his voice to protest against an abuse which, as I believe, many have long wished to denounce. The plain language he uses about the mismanagement...
Maud Granger's husband has sued for divorce on the ground of incompatibility of temper...
...sorry to notice a mean and cowardly attack upon our esteemed friend "Ephraim" in the last number of the Athenaeum. This gentleman has certainly not laid himself open to personal asperities; his reviews and criticisms have been distinguished for good temper, exact judgment, moderation, and ability; and his manly refusal to enter into any duel with the Athenaeum can only confirm us in our previous high opinion...
...intricate measures of a legislature, are imitated. Indeed, we do not believe that the members of the Union would long maintain their interest in such proceedings. The opportunity offered to persons fond of quibbling and obstructing would be too great to be passed over by them, and time and temper would be wasted by those who insist on the fine points of Cushing's "Manual." A glance at the working of even such well-ordered legislatures as the United States Congress or the British Parliament will show how much that is disagreeable can be carried on in them, even under...