Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mr. Bingham addressed members of the Freshman Class a few nights ago, he stressed the fact that there was no social or moral compulsion for students to support the football team. Similarly, no undergraduate is expected to engage in any outside activity, either for his own importance or for the University's. Thus, if he come out for the CRIMSON, he is competing only for those advantages gained by working on a college paper...
...present civilization is simply imitation. The so-called educated man of whom our generation is so proud, only repeats in parrot fashion the knowledge inherited from the past, is lacking in the intellectual audacity necessary for true progress. The big-brained animal has created an artificial material environment and moral code for himself, has not developed sufficient brainpower to use his creation wisely...
...will not be respected. As Cardinal O'Connell said the other day: "History proves that goodness and virtue cannot be forced on a people by statutes or by machine guns." "It is impossible," says Brand Whitlock, "by the use of force, however strong or violent, to impose upon the moral sense of the people a feeling that a given act is wrong just because those whose prejudices it offends have been able to induce a legislature to enact it into what is called...
Birth Control. "Where there is a clearly felt moral obligation to limit or avoid parenthood the method must be decided on Christian principles. . . . The primary and obvious method is complete abstinence...
...Nevertheless, in those cases where there is such clearly felt moral obligation to limit or avoid parenthood, and where there is a morally sound reason for avoiding complete abstinence, the conference agrees that other methods may be used provided this is done in the light of the same Christian principles. The conference records strong condemnation of the use of any methods of birth control from selfishness, luxury or mere convenience...