Word: moral
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...health of the students, it cannot be doubted, has been extremely beneficial. Games in the open air, which call for the utmost vigilance, self-possession, promptness and pluck in those who take part in them, are not without an effect on character. They are a mental and moral discipline of no slight value. That a considerable portion of the leisure time of students is most profitably passed in athletic exercises, such as rowing, ball-playing and gymnastics, exercises which promote digestion and sound sleep, tend to dissipate distempered fancies and stimulate manly energy, may be safely admitted...
...news could be better than this, nor more fruitful in promises for the future of the Yale freshmen. It is pleasant also to note that it is entirely due to advertising in the college papers that this panacea has attained so wide a popularity at our sister college. The moral is obvious...
...same year, Mr. W. Spottiswood, president of the Royal Society, is also a 'Varsity Crew man. Altogether the list of intellectual oarsmen from Oxford and Cambridge is remarkable and speaks well for the great institution of crew training and its effects. The ideal which reasonably co-ordinates mental, moral, and physical training, permitting no disparagement of either, is nobly borne out by such a showing as is presented by these statistics. The thinly disguised doctrine of monastic denial and scorn of physical culture, which Dr. Crosby is trying to revive in this country, stands ill in the face of such...
...Chapel last evening to a large audience on the subject of "Love and Law." In closing. Dr. McCosh applied the relations of law and love to the government and discipline at college, which in a manner, he said, occupy the position of the home to its students in its moral as well as educational functions...
...class of '83 have risen against the entire system, declaring "that their consciences will not allow them to appear upon the commencement stage as the recipients of "honors" based on a system which they believe to be injurious to the moral and intellectual tone of the college and unworthy of the dignity of college students." As their request for the doing away with honors was not granted, they have asked that, in their case, the usual commencement exercises be omitted...