Word: moral
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very glad to see such a society as the Total Abstinence Society go into operation. The plan proposed is an excellent one and should meet the hearty cooperation of all the students. It will tend to increase the general culture of Harvard; although much in advance in this moral culture of other colleges, still there is room for improvement in this respect. Respectfully...
...none the less, it does harm. A monkey will eat tobacco with impunity, but it does not follow that human beings will bear it. And even men are careful about the juice or oil. "Keep thy heart with all diligence," may apply to physical no less than to moral well-being...
...subordinate teaching to examining, or enforce any regulations by means of bars, gates and fines; and not a German university, because the elective system does not mean liberty to do nothing, and no American university has absolved itself, as the German university has done, from all responsibility for the moral training and conduct of students; but a university of native growth, which will secure to its teachers an inspiring liberty and an unlimited scope in teaching, offer its students free choice among studies of the utmost variety, maintain a discipline adequate to the support of good manners and good morals...
...entire blame for the usual failure to this cause alone. It is much to be questioned whether it is not often the case also that the too ambitious aims of managers and the unbusiness-like character of the organization, is responsible for the outcome. Well, then, what is the moral for the cautious observer to draw? In a homely phrase, "Go slow." Two axioms in this subject are everywhere admitted: Firstly, that college students, as a class, are subjected to and suffer more extortion than any other part of the community, and secondly, that it is only through their...
...Moral. - Charges for Ax-grinding have Raised...