Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale will study Moral Philosophy from a French work that is being translated expressly for Yale students...
...need, the crying need of our time and our country,-culture. The influence of Mr. Arnold's writings has probably been stronger at Harvard than the writings of any other living Englishman, and yet at this critical moment of Harvard's history we seem to have forgotten the moral of all his teachings. At no time and in no place has the conflict between Hellenism and Hebraism reached the height it has reached at the present moment and in Cambridge. If "sweetness and light," if the power of "seeing this as they really are" is at present the great need...
...Columbia the trustees have laid down for young women a course of studies which is almost identical with that pursued by the undergraduates. The course comprises Latin, Greek, modern languages, political science, history, English literature, moral and intellectual philosophy, geology and botany...
...instructor in German,-with the vigorous help in French which leaves the professor in that department more time for instruction in Italian and Spanish, we are better equipped than ever. Let me say here that I rejoice at this especially. Apart, of course, from the deepening of religious and moral feelings, I know of nothing more to be desired for our country than a broader and deeper cultivation of the literature and science of the world at large. We are developing too much in obedience to a single element of progress-to what I have in another place called "mercantilism...
...about the College. His own ambition for Yale was, that the scientists should not crowd out the classics, nor the classics crowd out the scientists, but that young men attending the college should be given a free choice of courses. He thought that in the last ten years the moral improvement of the students had been great. Twenty-five years ago the average Yale student was a longhaired individual, wrapped in a blanket-shawl. Today he looked like a gentlemen, whether he acted like one or not. This change, he believed, was due to athletics...