Word: moral
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pamphlet entitled "A Sketch of the University of Virginia" has recently appeared, from which we learn, with some astonishment, that of the gifts it has received since its establishment in 1819, amounting to $719,000, $653,000 have been contributed since the war-a fact of which the moral does not need to be pointed out. This total of $719,000 is exclusive of the gifts constituting part of the fixed endowment of the University, yielding a revenue which amounts to $282,600, all of which, except $2,600, has been also given since the war. Virginia has always been...
...menbership, paying an increased fee. If the society on a simple basis, employing only one person and carrying very little stock of its own, was a success, and the same society carrying a heavy stock, engaging in unremunerative branches of business and employing seven persons, is a failure, the moral needs no extended explanation...
...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 of men or students-than the most careful surveillance of an army of proctors. If a man is trusted he is ashamed to forfeit the confidence reposed...
...mathematics. Latin and Greek are still among the requirements for entrance, but after admission they are to be pursued only in case the student chooses to do so. A generation ago, the ordinary college course consisted of Latin, Greek and mathematics almost exclusively, with the addition of mental and moral philosophy and logic, and possibly a course of Christian evidences. History was little taught, except indirectly, the modern languages and the physical sciences were almost ignored, while subjects like political economy, comparative politics and sociology were almost unheard of by the undergraduate. Now Harvard swings to the opposite extreme...
...book counter: Melville's "In the Lena Delta;" McArthur's "Education in its Relation to Manual Industry;" Porter's "Elements of Moral Science;" Rawlinson's "Egypt and Babylon...