Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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President Eliot, in a short speech, said that the powers necessary to win scholarships and prizes are those which bring success in after life. Physical, intellectual and moral strength are as much needed by the scholar as by the athlete or the soldier. The excellent physical condition of the scholarship holders is a source of great satisfaction and their nervous system must be in good condition. While the desire of pecuniary assistance is a motive which, in some cases, leads men to try for scholarships, it is no longer the leading motive. The difference between scholarships with and without stipends...
...class of Nineteen Hundred is likely to have the first fair and good tempered Senior election that has been held for years. It would be a pity to have this election spoiled in itself, but a still greater pity to have its possible moral lesson lost...
...team from the Sophomore Debating Club was defeated by Exeter Academy at Exeter last night. The question was the same as that of the Princeton debate. The Harvard speakers, who were superior to their opponents in form, based their argument on England's moral right to intervene in the Transvaal because of her superior fitness to meet the peculiar conditions of South African government. For Exeter, R. R. Alexander, L. Grilk, and J. F. Dore maintained that England's intervention is not justifiable because she is prohibited from intervening by both convention and precedent. The rebuttal did not materially affect...
...that in any disagreement between a man's government and his Church, he should in all cases stand by the former. The letter of 1890 goes on to say that the Church should have supervision over the government, and should have direct control of all matters of intellectual or moral interest to mankind...
...number of the Monthly which came out yesterday begins with a most interesting article by Professor Hollis on "The Moral Aspect of College Sports." "The politics, the heavy physical strain, and the distractions of certain sports seem to outweigh, in many minds," says Professor Hollis in this article, "the positive good that springs from them. This prejudice is, doubtless, based upon the abuses of ten or fifteen years back, when athletics had run mad. Things have changed, however, and the old influences have disappeared. Many practices once thought legitimate have been given up as leading to bad sport, and college...