Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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JUNIOR FORENSICS.The first forensic will be due Oct 25. Subjects: 1. - "Is the Moral Culture of Its Students Part of the Functions of a University?" 2. - "Are Immoral Methods ever Justifiable in order to Secure the Best Men in Public Stations?" 3. "Hamilton's Argument in Favor of a Federal Judiciary." - [The Federalist...
...When this system is inaugurated, what pledge or security will we have that morning chapel will be left undisturbed? How can we hope to retain the grading system, with all its delightful uncertainties, dazzling possibilities and brilliant successes in analysis and classification? What assurance will we have that our moral character will be trained up in the way it should go under such a loose and irresponsible authority? There is even the possibility that men who are twenty-one years old, and presumably American citizens, will be at liberty to leave town without permission, not only when it is necessary...
Resolved, That it is the fixed opinion and firm conviction of the senior class of Columbia College that the co-education of the sexes is undesirable from an educational as well as from a social and a moral standpoint, and that its introduction here would be a fatal blow to the future welfare and prosperity of the institution...
...power of his personality. He was the creator of the Institute of Technology, the inspirer of its teachers and pupils. His direct influence through contact has been very great. At present probably less than ten per cent, of the intellectual leaders of the United States have reached the moral turning-point which President Rogers long ago passed...
...attacks on college students. This time it comes from Philadelphia in a newspaper called the Times. "For several years the public has noted with dismay the gradual decay of the ancient safeguards which stringent discipline was supposed to throw about the educational pathway of the young and rising generation," moralizes the Times. "The moral of college government is greatly relaxed, and our venerable eleemosynary and other institutions of learning are fast becoming the theatres of disorder and excess." This paper then makes the rather remarkable statement that "Harvard, Yale and others of our older colleges are compelled to rely upon...