Word: spotless
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Even before this, however, a man should strive for a spotless reputation. Live an honorable life. Never degrade a woman or oppress and cheat the weaker. Be honest, sincere, candid and generous, not only with one's time and money, but in one's opinions of other men. For it is now in College that the judgments of one's contemporaries are formed, and they are the ultimate tribunal in life. A man's reputation is continually forming among men, even those who may never have seen or spoken to him. Now is the time to look forward...
...first reason is that ignorance is power. It is often said that the spotless man cannot help and sympathize with the man who has sinned, because of his own inexperience in sin-as if a doctor should not set a broken arm unless his own arm had been fractured. A man does not need to soil his won life to help to purify the lives of others. The great power in life belongs not to the man who is tarnished but to the man who is innocent. It is Jesus Christ, the unstained, who is the most powerful figure...