Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...amateur athlete enters with a professional his standing as such is forever lost? If we were entirely to ignore professional assistance, why should we permit the teaching of boxing or fencing by such? No: the truth is, we wish everything under our charge, that we may learn exactly what moral influences are being brought to bear upon the student...
...Lanman dwelt especially on the moral effect of athletics. He would fear for the future of a listless boy; but if one had some object to work for - such as was furnished by boating, baseball and foot-ball - it would prove the best possible safeguard against drunkenness and the kindred evils which beset a college life...
...race should be rowed upon a certain date. Moreover, owing to the fact that all the conditions for the race were not agreed upon until the last moment, our crew was obliged to yield a point at the very start, and consequently had to row the race with the moral disadvantage of having the men in the Yale boat practically ahead of the Harvard crew. This year naturally the boat club desires that all points should be settled in advance; for it seems entirely reasonable that such questions should be settled before Yale's challenge is officially and definitely settled...
Life is under the management of Messrs. Mitchell, Miller and Martin. Among the contributors are W. J. Alden, author of "The Moral Pirates;" W. H. Bishop, "The House of the Merchant Prince;" J. Cheever Goodwin, "Evangeline;" Robert Grant, "Confessions of a Frivolous Girl;" A. A. Hayes, "A Symposium on the Chinese Question;" G. T. Lanigan, "Fables Out of the World;" G. P. Lathrop, "An Echo of Passion;" J. B. Matthews, "French Dramatists;" H. G. Paine, "All on a Summer's Day;" Arthur Penn, "The Rhymster;" J. S., of Dale, "Guerndale;" F. D. Sherman, "Her Portrait by Sarony;" J. T. Wheelwright...
...latest innovation is formidable - in name, at least. The "American University" is the title of a new institution recently chartered in Boston, for the introduction of "an improved system of education." Its objects are primarily "moral." "Its peculiarity consists in recognizing the moral faculties as more important than the intellectual, and entitled to more attention in education. It is claimed that it is as possible to develop virtue by education as to develop intelligence." It is probable that no other city but Boston could have given rise to such a university - with such a name. Harvard men will find...