Word: morale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sermon which Phillips Brooks preached in Appleton Chapel last Sunday is not a sermon that can be easily forgotten; the truth that it contained cannot be overlooked. Setting aside the strictly moral and religious sides of the question, which it is hardly our office to discuss, we believe that the mental and intellectual deserve note. It cannot be denied that there exists at Harvard, and probably at all colleges, a spirit of indifference for general excellence. Men come to college to study, and perhaps do study most faithfully, but if their one aim is to make themselves learned, then their...
...that authority which reveals to a man his own better purposes, and makes them firmer and finer than they could have become if directed by himself alone." The substance of the elective system is given in a single sentence, fixed quantity and quality of study, variable topic." The great moral help to students under this new ideal lies in the fact that "it uplifts character as no other training can, and through influence on character, it ennobles all methods of teaching and discipline." The one thing demanded under a free choice of studies is that the student should "will...
...from exercising his will during the formative period from eighteen to twenty-two, and you turn him into the world a child, when by years he should be a man. To permit choice is dangerous, but not to permit it is more dangerous. For building up a moral manhood, the very errors of choice are serviceable...
...prizes of $30 and $20 have been offered by the trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy for essays on the intellectual and moral effects of athletic exercises, and on the games in ancient and modern times...
...state of society, however, was very uncivilized. "Simple crimes like murder and theft," when once proved were quickly dealt with. There was a brief period of a wide-spread, well organized society, yet it did not last, for it was not founded on moral instinct which is a necessary foundation of all stable order. The treason of carelessness was the greatest sin of the early Californian, and for it he was obliged to severely atone...