Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...senior class of Columbia College, New York, have voted that "co-education is undesirable from the educational, social and moral standpoint." The "standpoint" of the Columbia senior seems to be the peaceful posing on the biggest pile of college endowment in America, blandly waving aside the opposite sex as educationally, socially and morally incompatible with his perfect and exclusive enjoyment of a particularly good thing.-[Woman's Journal...
...fairly discussed. The lectures will first make suggestions about certain modern ethical doctrines in their bearing upon religion, and will state the case of one doctrine in particular; then the inquiry will be taken up: What in the nature of things can be assumed to correspond to our moral needs, to offer them encouragement and religious support? Two or three theories will be passed in review under this head, notably the modern doctrine of progress as an universal law, and the doctrines in general that regard the world as showing us some kind of historical process. Then another view will...
...American Review in 1843, which he owned and edited for more than ten years. In 1850 Mr. Bowen returned to the college under an appointment to the McLean Professorship of History, but held the office only six months. Three years later he was made Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, the office which he now holds...
...recent meeting of the trustees of Princeton College President McCosh reviewed the progress the institution has made in the widening of its area of usefulness since he entered upon his office, and called attention to the fact that there had been no addition to the mental, moral and political sciences. "It would be a great stroke of wisdom," he said, "for the friends of the college to establish a School of Philosophy equal or superior to any in the country...
...Pythian, Isthmian, and Nemean models to be used for our colleges? Are Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia to gain glory by the strength of their students' muscles, and virtue by betting and drinking? Is the athletic contest before a miscellaneous crowd the best way to develop mental culture and moral health? Is it not even a very poor method of ministering to bodily soundness? Do athletes live long? Let medical men answer. I am ashamed to argue such a question. The whole business is demoralizing and directly inimical to the objects of a collegiate institution. Roughness, vulgarity, and the disgusting...