Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public, patents and copyrights-and punctuality. Main emphasis, unchanged, is on service and integrity: "The principal objective of the medical profession is to render service to humanity with full respect for the dignity of man . . . The medical profession should safeguard the "public and itself against physicians deficient in moral character or professional competence...
...value among American students. Drawing chiefly from the evidence of five previous studies, he notes that college students today tend to think alike, feel alike, and believe alike. He notes that most of them are gloriously contented, self-centered, and tolerant of diversity, that they value the traditional moral virtues, that they feel a need for religion, but that religion does not carry over to guide their important secular decisions, that they are dutifully responsive towards government, and that they set great stock by college in general and their own college in particular. "For the most part," he concludes...
This excellence was certainly not moral. Nobody was concerned about the goodness of undergraduates. Indeed, the University required only that they keep out of trouble with the police, and that they obey a certain minimum of administrative regulations most of which had to do with two national preoccupations: money and sex. Bills must be payed immediately and girls must never be used overtime in rooms...
...University's attitude towards moral excellence was purely punitive, its attitude towards physical virtue was the reverse. Rumplestiltskin found that while the University encouraged athletics for all, it encouraged the athletic endeavors of the naturally proficient with especial fervor. The most excellent athletes were given rewards of cash and kudos, and put into the entertainment business on weekends. And yet, strangely, the University did not seem to believe that excellence was the only standard, for it also required the physically incompetent to perform alarming feats during their first year of residence. It seemed to be a case of "everybody...
...moral is that it is probably better not to sin at all, but if some kind of sin you must be pursuing...