Word: moralistes
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...life at Harvard improves neither of these classes; they probably will not graduate as scholars, certainly not as men. But how about the large class of students who come here with tolerably good characters and intentions? Are they benefitted or harmed by the vice which surrounds them? A moralist of the old school would be shocked at the thought of a man's character being strengthened by contact with wickedness. But such is unquestionably the case. If indeed, his knowledge is of vice which is repellent and disgusting, then, although he may be all the more firmly resolved to shun...
Thus it comes to pass that the Morgue is no longer a mere inanimate building. It becomes weirdly endowed with an awful personality. It is an explorer, it is an expounder, it is a preacher, it is a prophet, it is a stern moralist, it is a ghastly buffoon, it is a broken-hearted recording angel. Like some horrible ghoul, grinning and gibbering forever amid its dark mysteries, it stretches out awful hands to the wretched and the despairing throughout the vast, throbbing city, and whispers: "Come to me, come to me!" and they hear and shudder and turn cold...
...that in giving a degree to a particular person the college will impair its moral standing and lower the value of its diplomas with all respectable and thoughtful men, it is its duty not to give it. Moreover, it cannot afford, any more than any apostle, or prophet, or moralist, or minister, to do a wrong thing just once more. The time for every man or society to stop doing wrong is now. - [New York Evening Post...