Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...condemn indecent and immoral motion pictures and those which glorify crime or criminals. . . . I acknowledge my obligation to form a right conscience about pictures that are dangerous to my moral life. As a member of the Legion of Decency, I pledge myself to remain away from them. I promise, further, to stay away altogether from places of amusement which show them as a matter of policy...
...amoral New England family." Like most blurbs this one conceals more than it tells about Victoria Lincoln's excellent novel. If the publishers had been looking for a more accurate, though perhaps less cunning, device for gaining publicity they might have called it a study in contrasting morals. It is true that Minna Harris, the strongest character in the book, finds little time to bother herself with moral reflections. She is a June among prostitutes who supports her family on the profits of her popularity among travelling sports. The family includes, besides four children, a sot of a husband...
...course will be a study of the development of moral ideas in Europe beginning with a study of Greek and pagan ethics. Other topics to be discussed will include ethics of Christianity, ethics of Middle Ages, ethical significance of the Reformation, liberalism and democracy, nationalism and its ethics, laissez-faire ethics, scepticism and tolerance...
...occasional written paper or quiz will be required. For those who have had one half course in philosophy and who are interested in the study of moral ideas and values this is an excellent half course to complete the requirement for distribution...
...inference that Harvard College should pander to the demands of fanatical football fans even though it knows this to be "wrong" is foreign to the traditions of any free educational institution and to Harvard in particular. If an educational institution stands for anything it should stand for intellectual and moral honesty. Your suggestion that it should depart from this ideal (I do not deny than in the past it has not been constantly adhered to unfortunately) is a disgrace to your own integrity...