Word: morally
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...customs and ideas of the American people. We are taught how to talk, how to write from left to right, and how to be in close touch with all phases of actual American life. The spirit of higher education, which enables us to see the social and moral activities of Harvard, finds response in our hearts. It shows us a type of education, different from that of Japan, a type which appears most important in preparing the young men for citizenship in a democracy...
...through his mother's family, a dash of mysticism sometimes resembling second sight. His physical and mental powers were not always in the happiest mutual adjustment: he became easily the prey of moods and fancies, and knew the alternations from wild gaiety of spirits to black despair. The firm moral consistency of Puritanism was always his, yet his playful remarks about belonging in a hospital for incurable children had a measure of truth in it also...
...days. Then, anyone who employed it would have been looked upon with well-founded suspicion that he was shirking his duty. The best only was expected, and the best was given unhesitatingly by all. But as President Lowell warned the Freshmen earlier in the year, "the great moral effort which this war has required will surely be followed by a period of moral lassitude...
...Getting by" is the advance poster of this lassitude. The expression "contains as much moral poison as a two-word phrase can hold", and it aims to dull the conscience into accepting the kind of listless existence it signifies. The man who says he is "getting by" is merely drifting with the current into the sea of oblivion. When the fighting spirit of races as well as of individuals runs low rapid degeneration inevitably follows. And when high resolve and constant initiative relax their powers, then the loser is morally poor indeed; for he has dropped out of the race...
...excelled in athletic sports; was a splendid horseman, an honor graduate of the U. S. Mounted Service School, and was one of the best polo players in the Army. He was particularly noted for his high moral character, for his quiet but earnest religious convictions, for his efficiency in the conscientious performance of every duty. He was a born leader of then--one of the best known and most highly esteemed officers of the Army. Since his death he has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his bravery in action near Chatel-Chehery, October 5 and 6, when...