Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bloody Monday" night hovering just ahead of us, it behoves us to speak of some quaint old rites which in years gone by used to take place on this first Monday of the college year, and which marked a lower stage in the development of our mental and moral faculties; for we will not venture to suppose that the roots from which these ancient customs grew are still lying hidden in the college soil. Long ago, then, as we said, it used to be customary for the new-fledged sophomores to serve notices upon the budding freshmen, or otherwise violently...
...book has been placed at Leavitt & Peirce's for the signatures of those men who will accompany the nine to New Haven on the nineteenth. Every man in the university who can by any possibility make the trip, ought to feel in duty bound to do so. Moral support at Yale has become a very necessary thing of late years...
...convince the gentleman that if tutors have the right to exist, and if they have a right to use the United States mail, or the columns of a daily paper, it matters little how they advertise themselves; and no reasoning man will deny that they have a legal and moral right to do this, and to advertise their trade in any way they see fit; - the taste of their modus operandi, must necessarily be left to them...
...moral courage has been attacked. If the attack is justifiable, it seems strange that the faculty should have made a unanimous bona-fide declaration of trust in us. As to our complaint of officiousness, this is a free country If anybody without due authority from the United States, the state, the city, the faculty, or the students, assumes the right to control us, I think that to most people he would seem officious. And now I will try to answer the last charge against us, - that we are afraid of responsibility...
...question, "ought the faculty to treat undergraduates as boys or men?" be settled, for many years to come, by a few irresponsible larkers acting for their own personal amusement now. I must confess that the weak point of the Harvard character seems to me to be a lack of moral courage in the deeper affairs of life. An individual who comes here full of it, finds himself in a non-conducting medium. His vibrations die away like the sound of a bell in an air pump. I have heard the older men who succeeded in mitigating the uproar...