Word: temperance
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...felt that colleges were responsible for "smoking, drinking, cosmetics, French heels, and all other flapperisms among young women", and the only ways out in his opinion was to burn them all to the ground. Then President Butler of Columbia complained in his annual report against "the spirit and temper of journalism, which may perhaps be fairly described as day-to-dayness," and which has "notably invaded American education to its grave undoing...
Similarly in urging youth to temper its daily conduct with thoughtfulness, it is difficult to escape the form "Thou shalt" and "Thou shalt not". Moral exhortations in these forms are excellent in their way but indigestible when not highly tempered by imagination and especially when administered in large doses. They lose effectiveness in proportion as they increase in number and lack imagination. When a schoolboy hears "My Vacation" spoken of as a "fearsome opportunity of time", he is not apt to be properly terrified...
...lucky for us that the inspired French critics went no further in their indictment. Something intervened to restore their good temper and they conclude philosophically that, after all, America existed anyhow, and inevitably had to be discovered if only by accident. Perhaps only the redskins would have wished an indefinite postponement of Columbus's sailing...
...Francisco. What happened yesterday at the Polo Grounds has had its parallel in occasional demonstrations in the Harvard Stadium against the home team. If manners make the man, our crowds have still much to learn. In the last analysis the level of sportsmanship depends as much upon the temper and ideals of the sporting public as it does upon the standards of the players themselves, whether professionals or amateurs. What wonder that the pages of professional baseball are sometimes marred by scandals, when the crowds that throng the grandstands are so ill-mannered and when there are among the spectators...
...former, let us hope that it will throw some further light on the incident so brilliantly alluded to by the London Punch in "Dropping the Pilot". Does Wilhelm regret his action, we wonder, and if so will he have the courage to say so? Or will he "temper Justice with Mercy" (for himself)? "A penny for your thoughts" is proverbial; the Kaiser is to get many such ponnies. Let us hope he has many thoughts to offer in exchange...