Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...point is now far passed. Students are repeatedly annoyed and decidedly inconvenienced by the presence of outsiders who have no right whatever of free access to the Yard, but whom no effort is made to exclude. A little exertion on the part of the College police in imposing some restraint upon the many intruders would be heartily welcomed...
...after the chairman of the Athletic Committee had spoken, the captain and manager of the freshman nine remonstrated with the class, but wholly without avail. Ninety-seven, so far from setting the example of compliance, by their own firing very effectively spurred the freshmen on to a lack of restraint which was ungracious in the extreme. That their behavior may have the effect of removing all class games to Soldiers Field is an argument against it which will appeal most strongly to the thoughtless leaders of the disturbance. The most sensible and serious of the class already condemn...
...diet. The vacation will offer many temptations to laxity in these respects and the necessity of guarding against them cannot too strongly be urged. Every man owes it to himself, to his team and to the University to be as strict with himself when he is free from restraint as when he is under...
...necessarily unformed. The boarding school too often developes not true manliness, but rather a heedless independence which is incompatible with it. To put a boy in the way of such development the neglect of higher, is a grave mistake. Self-reliance should not be born of mere freedom from restraint, but of a consciousness of power which can hardly accompany the school boy's immaturity...
...afford to sacrifice the lives of men for commercial gain, it can much more easily afford to make similar sacrifice upon the altar of vigorous and unsullied manhood. The question of a life, or of a score of lives is nothing compared with that of moral purity, human self-restraint, in the interests of which, among college men, outdoor athletic sports contribute more than all other agencies combined. As a matter of fact, the statements concerning bodily injuries incurred contain gross exaggerations. If athletics have been prostituted by gamblers and pugilists, let the college world come to the rescue...