Word: morals
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- In your columns there appeared, a few days ago, a communication from Professor James commenting upon the evidence as to the moral tone of social responsibility at Harvard, which was shown in the objections urged against a proposition to form clubs guaranteeing the honor of individual members. Prof. James thought that these objections revealed a very low ebb of effective moral opinion...
...form such clubs for the express purpose of cheating; that a club honestly formed might not remain pure, etc. In brief, the project met no favor. Now, to me this little incident was a revelation of the low ebb to which the college tone had sunk as regards effective moral opinion. I thought I could perceive that what made this scheme unpromising was not so much the conviction that even in such clubs men would cheat, but the feeling that if any one should cheat, he would have the club at his mercy. The other members would then have...
...communication from Professor James this morning calling the attention of the college to a plan for examinations without proctors presented to the defunct Conference Committee by one of its members is interesting throughout, but particularly in the use of one expression "effective moral opinion." There is a great deal of opinion here which has not the courage to raise its head, and so becomes ineffective. Recently Professor Adler spoke in Sander's Theatre and impressed upon his hearers the word activity. If that lesson could be taken a little more to heart there would be a great change...
Harvard is a great university. She has a past full of glory and a future full of promise, but she does need moral activity. Fearlessness will bring it, but where is fearlessness to be found...
...verse this number of the Advocate contains four pieces. "The Oak" is well-conceived; is very good in form. The writer has a peculiar bent toward this kind of simile and he handles it very well. Of even a more serious character than this short moral reflection is "A Song of Life and Death," which is a rather fine parable in verse. "Love's Arrow" and "The Rain" hardly deserve much comment...