Word: moral
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Woman Suffrage would benefit home and state, (a) by promoting moral legislation, (b) by abolishing boss rule. (c) Women could and would more thoroughly train future voters...
...state of affairs is very unsatisfactory to every one who feels that college athletics above all should be free from politics and securely based on frankness and sincerity. Surely this mutual distrust and suspicion is unmanly and unsportsman like and entirely out of harmony with Yale's great moral purpose to purify athletics. All this internal disorder shows beyond question that an intercollegiate athletic league composed of more than two members cannot live in peace and harmony. There will be combinations and wire-pulling and compromise and friction as long as two or three can unite to overwhelm a third...
...becomes more and more significant. The time has gone by when college men turned up their noses at the needs of others less fortunate than themselves, and considered contact with a different class or a different race as beneath their dignity. The fact is that education, intellectual and moral, is showing more and more clearly that, in the present order of things, the voice of the lower class must be heard, and must be heard by college men. More and more men of recognized standing here in the University are becoming interested, either actively or passively, in the Prospect Union...
...This deprivation is an evil. Contemporary Review, LIII. p. 465 (Mar. 1888.) Forum, V. p. 517. Cable's Silent South, p. 16.- (a) For the South; bad moral influence of a violation of the Constitution. (b) For the North: disproportionate representation. (c) For the Negro: loss of the educating influence of citizenship...
...often been the case that men who deserve places on the ticket have been defeated simply because their classmates had insufficient moral courage to vote as they ought. There is a class of unprincipled men in every large gathering who are only too willing to follow any leader who tickles their fancy with a tale of wonderful exploits or with a hope of preferment of one kind or another. These men, weak as they are individually, form a formidable body when many of them get together, so formidable a body in fact, that often the tide of fortune turns entirely...