Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Famous is the name of Harvard College: famed its teachers, famed its books, its buildings, and its attitudes. But a name is legend, nothing more; the student is the meaning, the living organism that passes on the ideas and the morality current in Cambridge. The worth of the College is the worth of its graduates, fresh-escaped from their four-year imprisonment in the mold. Who they were when they first saw the Square, how they got here, what exactly is the unformed Freshman medium--that is the subject of College Scene Number II. After that comes the deluge...
...forget the large goal. That objective was set forth in the report: "to examine as critically and systematically as possible through the use of modern techniques all aspects of residential University life, including both instructional methods and programs and extracurricular activities, for their effect on the student's intellectual, moral and physical development...
Last week, with the Michaelmas term at Shawnigan Lake under way, Christopher Lonsdale patted his German Shepherd Judy and pointed a moral: "If I had let Judy run wild and do as she damn wefl pleased as a pup, she'd be a vicious, savage beast today. You can't develop leaders by letting them do as they damn please when they're boys. If nothing else, we're training boys to be less obnoxious...
Meanwhile, back in St. Pierre, dejected Miss Reed has decided to become a nun. Sister Lana & husband get home just in time for a big, tasteless church scene in which Donna takes her vows as Lana makes calf's eyes at Donna's onetime man. The moral of all this seems to be: if you want to be happy, be sure to marry someone you don't love...
...bringing out a uniform U.S. edition of all his works,* confident that he will shortly be as highly regarded in the U.S. as in his home country. But the forbidding theme of his novels may scare off many U.S. readers: Mauriac dwells in the gloomy fogs and disasters of moral corruption and puts a bleak emphasis on the wages...