Word: temperance
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...past year has brought about a great change in the temper and character of the University of Toronto. Last year, the students were engaged in the usual college activities, dallying with lessons and athletics; now they are engrossed entirely in the war and things military. Three-fourths of the news published in the daily undergraduate paper pertains to the European battlefront and eulogies on peace. A commissioned lieutenant is military editor of the paper. Intercollegiate athletics have been officially abandoned by a decree of the university's athletic directorate. Over one thousand graduates and undergraduates of the University of Toronto...
...survey of the past and the present of Germany has, I trust, made it clear that the German people of today is not, as its enemies declare, a degenerate perversion of a former and nobler type. On the contrary, with all its defects and excrescences of temper, it is a splendid outgrowth of a century's training in the national application of those ideals which distinguished the classic period of German literature and philosophy: unconditional submission to duty, unremitting endeavor for intellectual advance, assiduous cultivation of the things that give joy to the soul. A people that believes in these...
Your editorial on the Menace of Military Camps seems to me not to stand the analysis of careful study. I think we can assume that the temper of the American people and our democratic institutions are a sure pledge that the United States will not be drawn into any war of aggression of self aggrandizement. But to many of us it seems that a sincere love of peace alone is not sufficient to keep us at peace. Probably last June Belgium loved peace and was as unoffending as Switzerland but Belgium had no "adequate armament" as had Switzerland...
...readers in Chicago, Barnsville, and Kokomo,--with never a word on the true merits of the case. The news is warped in transit until the middle-westerner believes Harvard a hot-bed of immorality and a nursery of vice. The first thing, then, is to couch your arguments in temperate terms; the next, to make them thoughtful, not hasty. The man who loses his temper over affairs in Cambridge is the man who unjustly drags down the University in public estimation...
...Thayer '14, himself a writer of no mean ability, and W. C. B., Jr., '14 whatever modest person he is, have both reviewed the Illustrated, perhaps the hardest magazine for a literary person to criticise without losing his temper. They have done better than many of their seniors. Both conclude that it needs more skill in presentation, but that there is a great interest in its subject matter. What grave "assistant" would have stopped with this...