Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Many people excuse their selfish worldly lives on the plea that such a life as is enjoined in the text is impossible in this age of ours; which, with its boasted civilization and culture, is an age of mental incertitude, social destraction and moral confusion. The daily excitement which prevails unfits the soul for meditation. If we could but be transferred to the age of Abraham, or David, or even Cotton Mather, it would be easy to live a sober and godly life. But now the lust of the eye and the lust of the flesh, and of vain glory...
...have erred by excess of authority. I could not say so. The elective system, if it is to possess the future, must become as authoritative as they. More accurately we say that their authority was of a wrong sort. There are two kinds of authority, - the authority of moral guidance, and the authority of repressive control. Which shall college authority be? Authority is necessary, ever-present authority. If the young man's choice is to become a thing of worth, it must be encompassed with limitations. But as the need of these limitations springs from the imperfections of choice...
...first theses in Philosophy 13 were returned to the members of the section yesterday. The third thesis will be due February 14. Subject: The Moral doctrine of Spinoza...
...fifteen, junior year, and twelve hours out of fifteen, senior year, in class-room exercises, the rest being prescribed, and consisting mainly of physical science and philosophy. The elective courses from which choice may be made are ninety-two in number, arranged in seven departments - Mental and Moral Science, Political Science and Law, History, Modern Languages, Ancient Languages and Linguistics, Natural and Physical Science and Mathematics...
...This is a rather more serious matter than it seems at first, for it involves the fact that the life of many students is passed chiefly in the society of men; and this state of things I believe to be radically unhealthy. Nothing is so good for the moral tone of a growing man as knowing - and knowing well - young girls. Nothing so surely keeps him out of mischief; nothing better helps him out if he has once fallen in. The importance, then, of securing for students who come from a distance some introduction to people living near the college...