Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Anthropology is not limited to the study of man's physical nature, as it formerly was, nor to that of his moral and mental activities. These are merely phases of modern anthropological study, for Anthropology embraces all the relations of man to nature. It may seem strange that a study of such vital importance to humanity should be of such recent origin. But, as the child does not wonder much about itself until it has in some degree satisfied its curiosity about the things around it, so the human race has but lately begun to study itself, after having, through...
...editorial is a criticism of the recent votes of the Overseer. It agrees with Mr. Walcott's views in regard to all the proposed measures except the roll call. This it condemns as wrong in principle, degrading to the moral tone of the University in results, and unnecessary...
...contributed by Mr. H. H. Darling. It takes the opposite ground from Mr. M. Storey's "Politics as a duty and as Career," in advocating party organization rather than personal independence. The writer divides independent voters into five classes, and after showing that the first three are objectionable on moral grounds, claims that the experience of the last few years has proved the inexpediency of the others. While the influence of the last two classes appears to be underrated, the argument for the formation of political parties is strong and worthy of attention...
...prestige of Harvard connections, have attracted a large number of social and worldly papillons from New York and Chicago society, whose lavish expenditures and dissolute living are no torious. Nevertheless, Cambridge is not a Capua or a Corinth, as Aleck Quest seems to paint it. Per contry, the moral tone of the students as a whole will bear comparison with that of any other body of students, with that of any other body of students, while in intellectual matters the ferment of thought and study is far more fruitful and vigorous than elsewhere in America. Furthermore the ratio of higher...
...came to Harvard with the suspicion that it was a poor place for a religious man to come to. My Orthodox friends, both in the East and in the West, warned me of its moral atmosphere. But, after I had spent a half year at Harvard, during which time I made its moral and religious tone a study, I concluded that the fears of my friends were unfounded, and, furthermore, that their ideas had been distorted by such articles as the one written by Quest for the North American Review. Unwilling, however, to rest the matter on my own experience...