Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Such language as this, uttered at a public dinner, leads one to consider whether the conservative element who declare that the moral effect of football is harmful have not, after all, solid ground for their assertions. The further fact that none of the alumni present arose to object to the language used by Captain Beecher as being unseemly and as evincing a deplorable spirit, might well lend further weitht to the arguments against the game. By their silence all the members of Yale present at that dinner signalled their assent to these bullying and indecorous words...
...winter, meetings will be held for the purpose of uniting in common effort all who earnestly desire to advance the highest interests of the University. At these meetings, which are intended to follow out the line of thought suggested by Professor Drummond, the subjects of discussion will be practical moral and religious problems of college life...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Among the many trite and wearisome subjects which have been commented upon in your columns with varying success, there is one in regard to which all efforts would seem to have been unavailing. I allude to the moral so often drawn from the "old, old story" of Town and Gown. According to a little squib which perpetually appears in that weekly publication, the University Calendar, the front seats in Appleton Chapel are always (?) reserved on Sunday evenings for students alone until 7.30, at which hour all vacant seats will be filled by the surplus Cambridge people...
...CRIMSON board has received a very prettily-gotten up copy of "Jack, the Fisherman," Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' new story. Although it is a tale with a moral, it is one of the most powerful and interesting stories ever written. It is the life of a Gloucester fisherman who, inheriting a taste for rum, rapidly follows the downward course, and ends by killing his wife and himself, leaving a little child to face the world alone. No story could be more sad and pathetic. In it are clearly shown the influence of a good woman and the susceptibility of even...
...Williams, '88, for the negative, said that of all prejudices, the religious ones are the bitterest, most vindictive and tenacious. He repudiated the attacks made by the affirmative on the baneful influence of the Catholic church and clergy, the assertion that Catholic parochial schools would be disloyal, utterly false. Moral training without religious teaching has very little effect...