Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good college paper is worth more for the moral and gentlemanly tone of college life than a library of by-laws and an army of faculty spies. [New York Independent...
...Scottish character an impress which was ineffaceable, and which had contributed to place Scotsmen in the foremost place in every country they visited. He was also struck by the elasticity of their system. By allowing advanced students to be examined in either literature, mathematics, or mental or moral science, they were singularly fortunate in avoiding two extremes, making their university neither an agglomeration of technical schools, nor a place for learning dead languages. A university should be a centre from which culture and enlightenment should radiate in all directions. He was, therefore, glad to see them exercising influence outside their...
...many quarters some ten years ago. The reasons for this gratifying change of opinion are, in part, the almost total disappearance of those organizations that in the early days of college fraternities mistook the true purposes of those societies to be such as must lower the intellectual and moral tone of their members, the careful maintenance of a high standard of membership by the influential fraternities, the better understanding of the fraternity system by its honest opponents, and finally the sheer exhaustion of those that heretofore have maintained a vigorous tilt at the windmill for exercise's sake, on finding...
...recent lecture on "The Lesson of Greek Art" in New York, Dr. Charles Waldstein, of Cambridge University, lately of Columbia College, took occasion to draw the moral from Greek art in favor of the highest and most liberal education in this country. The advice of the King of Bavaria to a young architect, he chained, was the advice we, of all nations, needed most to heed: "Build your spire first! The others will see to it that the nave does not remain unfinished"-advice the very reverse in purport of the popular maxim of "penny wise and pound foolish...
SENIOR FORENSICS.Third forensic, due on March 19. Subject: 1. Does the history of progress favor utilitarianism? 2. May virtuous acts be defined as those which tend to produce happiness? 3. "You cannot make men moral by Act of Parliament" (comment on this statement). 4. Should district and State boundaries be obliterated or ignored in the election of representatives and senators in the United States? 5. Compare Grant and Lee as military commanders...