Word: moral
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...moral influence of the university life is a better preparation for active life.- (a) The student's enthusiasm for his work is kept more fully alive by the elective system: Educational Review, VII, 313; VIII, 64.- (1) It allows him to pursue the branches in which he is interested.- (2) He can avoid branches disagreeable to him.- (3) The presence of graduate workers acts as a constant incentive to him.- (4) He is stimulated by more sympathetic intercourse with his instructors.- (b) It leads to "Emancipation of Thought"; Educational Review, IV, 366; VII, 313 fg.; Graduates' Magazine...
...Armenia and give our encouragement to the only movement for her relief which our country is trying to make-the Red Cross movement. I hope that every man who can possibly do so will put aside study and private interests for an hour Monday evening and lend his moral support to the meeting of the United Religious Societies. If we, as a body of disinterested students can throw our weight on the side of peace and humanity there is no telling what good results will follow. Harvard stands before the country as an example in many things. Let every...
...coming year has finally been chosen every member of the University who has its honor at heart will do all that lies in his power to help to turn out the best possible team, whether by coming forward as a candidate, if he likes ballplaying, or by giving his moral support to the nine if he cannot try for it himself. We mention the "honor" of the University advisedly, in spite of the fact that in Saturday's issue we deprecated its undue use as a motive for supporting University teams, since the honor of the University has been very...
...said to Mr. de Mauny-Talvande at the end of his lecture, his opinions are entitled to respect, but they are based on caste and party prejudices; he made a very inadequate presentation of the moral side of our educational system; its defects are magnified a thousand fold in his exposition; he is mistaken in asserting that party considerations govern the appointment of our school teachers; he is utterly wrong in saying that our late prime minister, Jules Ferry, wished the schools to be atheistic; he merely wanted them to be non-confessional; he fails to do justice...
...leaves: First, that if there exist in the so-called middle and lower classes in France envy, jealousy, and hatred towards the so-called nobility (and I have my doubts about this) these feelings are not, as Mr. de Mauny-Talvande believes, the result of our bad system of moral education in our primary and secondary schools, but of the idleness, the futility, the licentiousness, the egotism, the superciliousness, of too many members of this so-called nobility, who have learned absolutely nothing from the great revolution and from modern social evolution. Second, that the education to be obtained...