Word: temperments
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...Copeland spoke of the overwhelming predominance in almost every form of art of what we have agreed to call realism. In fiction for one art, notwithstanding the romantic revival under the leadership of Stevenson, by far the larger number of prose master pieces have been of realistic tone and temper. Prose has long since crowded verse out of the drama and all the resources of scenery, stage carpentry, costumes, and the actor's art have been used to realize-if one may so speak-even the romantic drama. Even these devices, however, do not remove the bar that separates Shakespeare...
...From the beginning it has been the object of the Faculty and of the Athletic Committee, not to cripple or abolish the competitive sports, but to have them conducted with moderation and honesty, and in a generous temper...
...thoughtful men anywhere? Of the significance of the Monroe doctrine, and its place in international law I have nothing to say, except that they can not be settled even by the most emphatic assertion, but must abide the decision of those who are qualified by their training and temper to discsus the subject; nor are the merits of the Venezuela question the issue chiefly raised by Mr. Roosevelt, for upon that subject his communication may be left to have its due weight in proportion to the reasonable and convincing force of his arguments, and I do not mean to intimate...
...regards intentional rough play the advisers express their conviction that nearly all the players on College teams desire to play in an honorable way, but that more effective legislation is needed for the detection and summary punishment of the exceptional player of a vicious or ungovernable temper, and to this end they recommend an additional umpire and an increase in the powers and responsibilities of all the officials. These changes, coupled with the influence of the present widespread and merited criticism of unfair play, it is believed, will put the game upon a truly sportsman like basis...
...Homer, their Sophocles, their Tacitus, their Horace, where we take up our newspaper or our novel. What an old Gascon prig would Montaigne have been but for the ancients, especially Plutarch. Yet his library did not swamp him, and though his essays are pockmarked all over with quotations, his temper is essentially modern, indeed, he is the first of the properly modern writers. It is not as ladders to the languages in which they are written that I would commend these books, but the languages as ladders to them, where by we may climb to a larger outlook over...