Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inter-collegiate contests is their tendency to restrict the number of men in college who practice the competitive sports. The keenness of the competition creates a high standard of excellence, and persons who know that they cannot reach that standard cease to play. The athletic sports ought to cultivate moral as well as physical courage, fair dealing and the sense of honor. If any form of unfairness, or meanness is tolerated in them, they become sources of wide-spreading moral corruption. If students do not find their sense of honor cultivated and refined by their college life, they...
...years. We get more money than any other university, if that is to be taken as an evidence of popular approval. Not that I think money is everything. Sometimes I am told that we are more careful at Cambridge of things intellectual rather than things moral. I am satisfied that there is no better evidence of moral grandeur than that which is shown in intellectual achievements. 'By their fruits ye shall know them,' is a grand moral declaration; gentlemen, you are the fruits of the university...
...good college paper is worth more for the moral and gentlemanly tone of college life, than a whole library of by-laws, and an army of faculty spies...
...laid on base-ball, no larger number have played base-ball than before. The changes introduced by the committee cannot, therefore, make exercise accessible to a greater number. Nor do we believe that this has been the motive of the committee. In each case they have been led by moral reasons, either in accordance with their crusade against professionals or, as in the case of foot-ball, from their belief in its brutalizing effect...
...Sargent will deliver a lecture tonight before the B. Y. M. C. Union: Subject, "The Weakness of Strong Men, and the Moral Dangers of Athleticism...