Word: moral
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fellowships, open to recent graduates who may wish to pursue the study of mental and moral philosophy, have been established...
...certainly a natural consequence of the first; but on reading a little further we find that the church into which the Editors of the Dartmouth were admitted, is not the Church in general, but that belonging to the College; and that the transformation is a material, not a moral...
...Class of '78 are to have the Oxford caps. The innovation is opposed and the opposition pointed with the moral, "It is far easier to wear Oxford caps than to turn out Oxford scholars...
...student received what mental instruction could be crammed into him while he was under the charge of his gymnastic teacher, when the library, which owed its increase to each student's yearly donation of one hundred volumes, was kept in the gymnasium, and when proctors successfully looked after the moral training of the youth. But both differences and similarities show that student life is much the same, whatever the time or wherever the place...
...Princeton men have no confidence in their Nine, at least they never bet on it. We hardly claim it as due to the revival influence over them, or to a high degree of moral perfection. They did n't bet and would n't bet under the most powerful stimulus of 10 to 0. Perhaps there is where the screw is loose. Betting may change luck. One youth of Princeton was pointed out as having a pot of $500 which he was willing to put up. A crowd of already disappointed strangers from Connecticut instantly and quickly drew around...