Word: moralization
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Would we, then, have the entire German system? We answer, No. We would not have the German system, nor the English, nor the so-called American. We would not have the German lack of moral control, nor the English "cram" and conservatism and absurd mediaeval customs, nor the American routine. But we would have the German liberality, the English manners, and the American customs. We would have a system which, while it avoided the evils, should combine the advantages...
Resolved, That we deeply mourn the loss of one whose high moral character, and earnestness in study and recreation, endeared him to all, and won for him a position of influence and respect among...
SINCE the cat-show in Boston and the congress of fair women in New York, it has been proposed to have an intercollegiate exhibition of Freshmen. The genus Freshman certainly presents many interesting varieties, and such a show, if properly managed, might be both moral and instructive. One morning the attendance was divided as follows: Faculty 3, Seniors 15, Juniors 12, Sophomores 3, Freshmen 8. The cry is for a total discontinuance of chapel exercises...
...present, where for various reasons most persons in some circles in college are so careful never to express disapprobation at anything which may be said, the predominant moral tone of such circles is either puerile or disgraceful according as the students are viewed as boys or men. Now if, for example, when any one talks ridiculously about getting drunk, or shamefully about buying fraudulent examination-papers, the hearers were to let it be understood that they considered such talk as the former silly, and the latter disgraceful, they would ultimately prevent much of the indecent talk now so familiar...
...could have given a more striking example of this "independent man" than "G. E." has done in setting forth at length his own opinions. They are precisely the sentiments which we have so often heard advanced by men who boast of the exalted moral pinnacle they occupy above their classmates. What is "G. E."'s treatment of Hollis Holworthy, whom he seems to consider the typical popular man, but a case in point? H. H. avows his intention of getting "as full as a goat." "G. E.," whose opinion is not asked, intimates, "delicately but intelligibly," that he is "gabbling...