Word: morals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...direction of free election of courses. In the junior year only one course of three hours a week is to be required, the students electing anything else they choose, provided that they have not less than fifteen hours a week. The required course is in mental and moral science. In the senior year only one course of two hours a week is to be required, and this is a choice from eleven electives in moral science...
Vesper Service yesterday was conducted by Rev. George A. Gordon, who spoke of the responsibilities of young men to society. Everything, said he, is brought into the presence of moral responsibility, wealth, character, genius, and youth. Youth cannot take upon itself the responsibilities of wealth or of genius, but is responsible for its own powers, to perform what is befitting...
Youth today owes to society three distinct services. One is moral idealism. No youth of any worth looks forward to his future occupation simply on an economic basis. He looks beyond, and hopes to make his profession better. And society has a right to demand this view from every youth. Linked with this must be the most strenuous purpose. We are not born with purposes firm set, but have to work our way with the strongest efforts. For this effort youth is the only fit time. Finally, society has a right to demand of youth a firmness and thoroughness that...
...prize of $50 has been offered at Boston College for the best English composition on the following subject: Whittier and Tennyson; the Moral Influence of their Writings...
...physical health has a great deal to do with the moral life. Most men whom I have seen go to the bad and were never able to rise again, are those men having poor physiques. The means of recovering from a bad life can be compared with a stream which has received some impurity. Lower down the stream you will see the water clear again; by constantly receiving good water from without and by depositing its sedement on the bottom, it at length regains its purity...