Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thinks, has exerted and will continue to exert a very great influence upon the training pursued at American colleges. He thinks the most available and important studies in a liberal course of study to be "Mathematics, leading to physical and natural science, and language, leading to political and moral science." These four elements are the "food, air, exercise and rest of physical growth." Not many years ago sectarian influence was very strong among the colleges, invading the trustees and faculty. Hence we see all over the country feeble, ill-endowed institutions, caring little for sound learning but strong...
...Times. "The lyceen is a rougher fellow altogether. He lives in a sort of barracks, wears a uniform, counts only as a unit in a mass who are governed in a semi-military fashion, and gets little or no separate attention from his masters. Outside the college walls no moral restraint is put upon him at all. If a professor saw him smoking or drinking spirits in a cafe on Sunday while he was out on leave no notice would be taken of the fact, nor would a professor or usher think of cross-questioning him on his return from...
...Moral and intellectual philosophy...
...enters the university with mere scraps of knowledge, acquired with the last remnant of his father's money. The poor village priest has sacrificed his all in order to secure to his son a position in life better than his own wretched one. And the boy is morally as badly equipped as pecuniarily. Long ago the uneducated and soft-hearted father lost his authority over his son, who, with his few Latin verses, deems himself far above the mental horizon of his village. Neither has he ever been subjected to the moral influence of his teachers; he stands entirely alone...
...current Argonaut contains an engraved portrait of B. F. Cocker, late professor of mental and moral philosophy in University of Michigan...