Word: manhoods
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...intercourse with the man whose ideas are but the crude generalizations attained to in five thousand nine hundred and seventy. Their natural ability may be equal; but the difference in their points of view is tremendous. Fathers, as is well known, are never progressive; the standards of their early manhood are retained,-and they are long supplanted standards. As for mothers, the case is even worse, for their ideals are those of the maternal grandfather...
...better quality than any where else this side of a German university. It is something to be thankful for that Harvard has reached the high plane on which it now does its work, without impairing its efficiency as a university, and with a very great gain in the spiritual manhood of its faculty and in the manly freedom of its students in their personal spiritual development. Indeed, the day is already at hand when Harvard begins to lead the higher religious thought of the country...
...plan of giving outside work to students is not the amount of knowledge which is acquired, but the principle which is recognized of allowing men to do work outside of the class-room on their honor. The police and detective system in our colleges is altogether too prominent. The manhood of the students is not sufficiently recognized. We believe that this pernicious system fosters dishonesty, and that if it did not exist the moral sentiment of the college would be a stronger safeguard against the contemptible measures of a few unprincipled fellows-they do not deserve the name...
There is so little vigorous manhood among us now that the very name we should most glory in, has become a term of ridicule, but if the little that still redeems us is taken away, Harvard will become synonymous for all that is weak, purile and despicable...
...social habit of drinking is essentially vulgar. "The manhood of man is lessened" as he becomes more appreciative of the superiority of French wines manufactured especially for the American market. Intemperance stands pre-eminent among the evils known to civilized nations, and is, moreover, the foundation of a great part of the other evils. In Europe, where formerly nobody got drunk because everybody drank, the cry is arising in almost every country, both on account of drunkenness, and on account of the adulteration of liquors France herself has become frightened and from an analysis of 1700 samples of what...