Word: soberness
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When the service was over, Chief Chaplain Yates sped to his office, composed an answer, a rebuke. But as he wrote his ire diminished. He did nothing with what he had written. "I got my sentiments off my chest," he later explained, "and upon more sober reflection did not deem it necessary to add my voice to that of Dr. Pierce other than orally...
...There has developed on the part of students a delightfully informal custom of coming (either sober or intoxicated) uninvited to dances at various chapter houses. This is done so extensively as to tax the capacity of the house, and so make dancing even more like the preliminaries of wrestling than either fashion or comfort dictates. It also happens that when those who desire to enter unbidden are ardent males without escort they at times push in window sashes, glass and all, or break outer doors from their imitation handwrought hinges...
...medical and dental clinics in Boston settlement houses, service to Student Council, Senior Album committee, or class groups, form the concrete daily routine of the Brooks House. Dwight Hall represents the clash of the conservative ambition of timid national organizations with a changed student mind, too filled with the sober religion of undergraduate activity to be receptive to organized contemplative philosophy. Time and effort have been spent in former years at Harvard in the attempted organization of contemplative discussion groups. The increased effort necessary to produce the slightest response, and the obvious failure of such organization has born testimony...
...prayer: "I pray for sober and sensible responsibility, a spirit of gratitude for the things we have . . . and most of all, restraint in speech...
...generally received as part of the practical science of business." Parenthetically Mr. Ford interjected: "It has been said that in England we employ only teetotalers. That is not true, but we insist on sobriety. We can only pay good wages to sober workmen...