Word: moral
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...United States is under moral obligations to pension its old soldiers. - (a) The army was made up of our best and most patriotic men. - (b) The U. S. has hitherto always given service pensions to its old soldiers. - (c) Our national honor is involved, for pension legislation is really the fulfillment of a contract; Ingalls and Gorman in Cong. Record, June 23d, 1890. - (d) The U. S. is wealthy enough to afford liberal pensions...
...discuss the dominant ideas of Dumas's novels and plays, his types of women (the Preraphaelesque, the Bachante, and the Penelope), - some of which Mr. Fletcher thinks to be so bizarre that he says with Zola, "Where can Mr. Dumas have studied his women?" - and of his treatment of moral (and immoral) problems. He concludes with M. Bourget that Dumas fils is "A writer very little given to questions of everyday living, and that his work ought to be studied by the historian of French sensibilities in the nineteenth century very closely indeed...
...Harvard Trio" and "Through the Register" are more conventional in their plots and treatment, the former appearing to be the best of the two in that it contains excellent delineations of three familiar types of Harvard character, although it is to be doubted whether the moral inculcated at the end would hold good in every case...
...Ethics, in charge of Professor Phelix Adler, Ph. D. He will give a course of eighteen lectures on the System of Applied Ethics, including a brief survey of the various schemes of classification adopted in ancient and modern ethical systems, the discussion of the relation of religious to moral instruction, of the development of the conscience in the child, etc. The Scheme of Duties treated will embrace Personal Ethics, Social Ethics in general, the Ethics of the family, the Ethics of the Professions, the Ethics of Politics, the Ethics of Friendship, the Ethics of Religious Association. The Scheme of Duties...
...from the management of the '92 crew of the difficulty of getting subscriptions. There seems to be an opinion prevailing throughout part of the class at least that because the crew is handicapped by a debt of three hundred dollars from the freshman year men are freed from the moral obligation of supporting it. Granting that subscriptions for various college organizations have become a greater burden than can be borne without a good deal of self-sacrifice, still, since the class of '92 in the autumn showed no desire to stay out of the class races, every man should bear...