Word: moral
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...public is necessarily apt to think chiefly of Marshall Newell the athlete. The real loss which falls heavily upon the University and upon his friends and the community in which he lived, is the loss of Marshall Newell the man. Such sterling virtues as his, and such mental and moral worth deserve all the honor they can receive from any formal recognition. The service will be a sincere tribute to a character which will always be admired...
...While it is obvious that Yale men have no right, moral or legal, to criticise Harvard's methods of conducting her athletics and her system of training, the kindly and historic interest which Yale men take in Harvard's sportsmanship ought not to be resented...
Either has a moral right, however, to protest if the other forgets the amenities which are popularly ascribed to their long and traditional intercourse. Harvard's football players have a right not to wear the "H" if they consider their skill of too low a standard. They have no right, however, to remove the "H" when it implies an ungenerous criticism of an honored rival. But every Yale man can afford to pass that by unnoticed, since they readily understand the keen disappointment of your failure...
...combination of qualities, both of mind and of temper, to make him a superior teacher of advanced pupils. For him classical learning was no mere accomplishment, a pleasing ornament for a man of letters, but an important branch of Anthropology, giving insight into the mental operations and intellectual and moral growth of ancient peoples. To him literature and monuments were records of life, and were to be interpreted by that and in turn themselves to interpret it. He said once, laughingly, that we called the Romans ancient, but when they were alive they thought themselves as modern as anybody there...
...second of the Paine Prizes, which are awarded for essays on the ethical aspect of the modern social questions, has been given to Herbert Werner Stebbins, first year graduate, 1896-97, for an essay on "Some Moral Limitations of Poverty...