Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...major part of the address was devoted to the duty of individuals to sacrifice their own tastes and convenience for the good of mankind. Some call the total abstinence doctrine narrow, a "moral strait jacket," but the lecturer thought differently. "I propose," said he, "to do no act, to set no example, which, if followed, may bring ruin on my fellow...
mand of any set of muscles. The agility and firmness, for instance, to be gained in boxing is not wholly a physical gain; it has, also, some reactions upon the habits of an intellectual man, which are not to be despised. There are also indirect moral reactions of college athletics which are thoroughly healthful. Physical training and physical excesses do not go together. The disappearance of the worst forms of hazing seems to me to be in part an effect of the increased interest in athletics...
...actions and cries which they make are out of proportion to the pain they bear, and are consequently misleading. The whole question is whether it is worth while to make animals suffer for the benefit of all mankind. Dr. Bowditch proved that it is. There is no moral objection, because we often expose those we love to some pain that they may gain from the results obtained. Why should animals so much duller be spared? We use animals for all other purposes, for food and clothing, and even for enjoyment and sport. The physiologist is certainly not so cruel...
...practical journalism in some Eastern college,-presumably Harvard or Yale. And although there is a delightful air of vagueness about the statement contained in the words "Western editor" and "fortune" that makes it read after the manner of an old fable, still, like an old fable, it has a moral, and it is of this moral that we propose to say a few words. the whole tone of our colleges is, we think, undergoing a considerable change in one respect in particular, namely, the light in which the profession of journalism is regarded. A few days since...
This phase of the matter is of vital importance because it is that which affects the relations of the faculties and students. The former look at the moral and the latter at the practical effects of the proposed change. Destroy the good relations which exist between the governing body and the students and the usefulness of the college is greatly impaired. So it seems clear that, in a case like this, where the students are so directly affected, their desires ought to have a good deal of weight in determining the result. To ignore them...