Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...point on which Dr. Hale in his letter lays most stress is that some means of moral guidance ought to be assured the student. "We grant great freedom in the choice of study. But, we do not mean to have any senior . . . . say to us that since he entered college no one ever told him that there is a difference between Right and Wrong." This is trite enough, of course. No one denies for a moment that some means of moral guidance ought to be assured. But is the only way of affording this moral guidance by means...
...copy this morning from the Nation of last week a most interesting and instructive comparison of the progress made by Harvard and Yale respectively during the last fifteen years. The moral conveyed by this article is obvious...
...shows an increase of thirty pages over that for 1883-84. President Eliot's report is devoted almost entirely to an elaborate study of the working of the elective system. Of the system itself the report says: "It is emphatically a method in education, which has a moral as well as an intellectual end, and is consistent with a just authority while it grants a just liberty." The twenty-one pages, on which is a complete record of every member of the classes of '84 and '85 for the sophomore, junior, and senior years, this record comprising the courses elected...
...would we say that we never personally gained any good whatever from the service. But what we do mean to say is that we recall no time when the service specially aroused religious impulses. Upper most in our recollection the college prayers stand, not for their religious or moral significance, but as a roll-call." - Cornell...
...batteries of compulsory religion forty-three times. Forty-three times had the boy-choir opened on him with the theme of retribution. Forty-three times had the preacher taught him that the way of the transgressor is hard. Praise, prayer, benediction, - 43 combined failures to accomplish a moral reformation. But the Sunday Herald softened his hard heart...