Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what in simpler circles than those of Harvard undergraduates are called "bull sessions." "For after all," he writes, "facts, especially scientific facts, are the most untruthful things there are." That is going a bit further than Kant, though like Kant, Mr. Chase does find truths at last in moral judgments. Lord Bacon went wrong because, though he had a scientific education, he had no moral education. It is difficult here to avoid making a debater's point, and suggesting to Mr. Chase that Alcibiades had a very humanistic, moral education...
...tuition, and using all surplus funds to pay, if necessary, up to the full cost of the education of genuinely brilliant students. None the less some such solution is on the way. Few nowadays will defend the old-fashioned belief that a young man gains enough from the moral discipline of "working his way through" by dull manual labor to compensate for what he loses in opportunity for profitable, leisurely reading talking, and listening...
Qualifications: Socialist; has been in jail for his moral convictions; Curley for another conviction...
Involving a sacrifice of perhaps $2,000,000 a year, the action on poster panels was inspired by no high-toned moral considerations but by the fact that: 1) a large number of the 75,000,000 U. S. citizens who are supposed to read billboard advertising regard hard liquor advertising in church & school communities as something less than a mixed blessing; 2) many a big advertiser like Henry Ford, Howard Heinz or W. K. Kellogg would be profoundly shocked to see his posters hard by one for Golden Wedding rye; 3) poster space is sold in "showings" or fixed...
...Student Council's request that riots following football games be discontinued is wholly justified and praise-worthy. These riots have no meaning whatever since the great majority of the rioters are drunkards. There is no objection, on moral grounds, to the tearing down of the goal-posts in the exuberance of a well-earned victory. But the free-for-alls, in which numerous people are injured, are not only sophomoric but dangerous. They are a relic of the old collegiate days, and an encouragement to a raucous element that attends the Stadium more for the ensuing fights than to view...