Word: morall
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...never be paid except in respect, admiration and loving remembrance. We owe them the demonstration that out of the hideous losses and horrors of war, as out of pestilences, famines, shipwrecks, conflagrations and the blastings of the tornado, noble souls can pluck glorious fruits of self-sacrifice and moral sublimity. And further, we owe them a great uplifting of our country in dignity, strength and security...
Continuing Colonel Hallowell spoke about the meaning of Memorial Day as follows: There should be neither mental nor moral confusion as to the real meaning of this Memorial Day and this Memorial Hall. I unite with the late William J. Potter of the class of 1854, who warns us not to be caught by the sentimental sophistry that since there were valor and heroism and courage and fidelity to conviction on both sides, we may commemorate those virtues of both armies as American...
...science is a drop, our ignorance a sea. The world of our present natural knowledge is a show-world; it is enveloped in a larger world of some sort, about which we mortals can frame no positive idea. As Kant pointed out, of this unknowable world we are morally bound to postulate a Divine Moral Order. Because it is our duty to treat the unknown world as if it were divine and moral, we practically know for certain that it is divine and moral. The inner need of believing that the world of nature is a sign of something more...
...External conditions unduly influential.- (1) Occasional indisposition of student. (2) Frequent excessive heat of final period.- (c) Men often fail to show their real knowledge.- (x) Owing to nervousness caused by issue at stake on one examination.- (3) Evil results upon students.- (a) Mental and physical strain.- (b) Moral relaxation.- (c) Encourages practice of "cramming."- (x) A knowledge sufficient to pass the examination quickly acquired and as quickly forgotten.- (2) Involves a great waste of time.- (b) Term virtually suspended for four weeks.- (a) Many days of idleness and inactivity during the period...
...years a source of great irritation between England and the United States, was submitted to arbitration, though finally settled by treaty. Such delay enables the jingoes to seize upon disputes, harmless in themselves, and to magnify them until they have created a veritable war scare with all its moral and material consequences. Further the practice of allowing cases even of minor importance, to drag on unsetted only increases the irritation between the two countries and endangers the peaceful settlement of graver disputes...