Word: moral
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Stuart Cumberland, the thought reader and exposer of spiritualism, now performing in Boston, advertises his exhibition as "under the moral support of the various professors of Harvard University...
...racy article on "Harvard Happenings" appeared in last Saturday evening's Traveller. The writer considers the small attedance at the Glee Club concert. "Here." he says, "lies a moral: The Harvard Glee Club will draw a full house in any city it may deign to visit. Nowhere is it truer that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country than in Harvard College. Her ablest professors, with lectures which would be read with interest throughout the world, cannot fill a moderately sized hall in Cambridge." The art of writing college songs, he thinks, has been lost, none...
...place him in Columbia or some other college, where the faculty may have sufficient common sense and discrimination to select from the wide field of English classic literature material for the education of youth that may be quite as useful for the mental and more suitable for the moral education of those to be placed under their charge...
Complaint is sometimes made of the small number of men who usually attend any ordinary class meeting, and the usual moral of Harvard indifference is in most cases drawn from this circumstance. It has been suggested that the late practice indulged in by some of the classes of calling meetings merely for the purpose of collecting money and paying off debts is the more important cause of poor attendance at these meetings. Of course this should not have any weight in deterring men from meetings, but, it is claimed, unhappily it does have weight. Perhaps a little more care...
...Commonwealth, says: "The publicity and excitement of engaging in matches all over the country is certainly not compatible with a faithful, honest performance of those duties of study and self-improvement to which their university course ought to be devoted; nor with the promotion or preservation of that moral manliness and self-respect which alone form and develop the true gentleman. The wealthier young men of each college will also be too generous - when they take time to think - not to see the justice of Dr. Crosby's remarks as to the hard and painful dilemma in which their poorer...