Word: moral
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Board of Preachers will be glad to have their attention called to any cases of special need where they may be useful, or to any better methods of serving the moral and religious interests of the University. General correspondence should be addressed to the Plummer Professor, though any preacher will gladly consider such questions as may be more appropriately addressed...
Upon his return he was ordained to the ministry but in 1858 he was called to the chair of mental and moral philosophy at Amherst. This was his sphere of labor until 1875. He was then elected to the national House of Representatives and served one term in the forty-fourth Congress. In 1877 Dr. Seelye was called to the presidency of Amherst College and held that position with great ability for fourteen years. He was a man of far-reaching personality, a scholar of the highest type, and he imparted the richness and breadth of his own nature...
...Birtwell '82. Professor Palmer expressed his satisfaction at the wise way in which the Volunteer Work had been fitted to the conditions of student life. Professor Peabody emphasized the value of the recent development of charity work among the students in bringing into real unity the various moral, religious and benevolent activities of the University. He expressed the belief that the movement was bringing to a real fruition the purposes set forth in the meeting at Sanders Theatre last fall when the present form of the enterprise was inaugurated...
...remain in active training during the coming vacation, which is to bring to other members of the University much welcomed rest and recreation. We believe that this self-imposed discipline which is so common as to seem at times almost commonplace, is one of the most useful and moral influences of the University life, and in its effects reaches far beyond the men immediately concerned. The mere winning or losing of a race may in itself be of little importance. The ennobling thing after all in athletics is the self-forgetful striving after an ideal and whether that ideal...
...Intercollegiate football is injurious to the players. - (a) Physically. - (1) Liability to overwork. - (2) Nervous strain. - (3) Liability to injuries. - (b) Intellectually. - (1) Takes excessive amount of time. - (2) Takes excessive amount of thought. - (x) Total preoccupation before the great games. - (c) Morally. - (1) Encourages extravagance. - (2) Leads to vulgar notoriety. - (3) Engenders ill feeling between colleges. - (4) Dulls the sense of honor. - (5) Dulls the feeling and has a brutalizing influence. - (6) Establishes false ideals. - (x) Physical force placed above intellectual and moral qualities...