Word: morals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...students, and in 1888 President Eliot opened the first meeting of the year with an address on "College Loyalties." At a later meeting Professor Norton spoke on "Interest in Literature in its Relation to the Life of the Undergraduate." At the fifth meeting Professor Goodale spoke of the "Moral Aspect of the Scientific Method." All of that year's meetings were devoted to questions of daily interest, or to the discussion of thoughts uppermost in men's minds. In 1889-90 the Conferences were devoted to a series of addresses on the various professions, each lecture being given...
Professor Tucker spoke briefly of some of the uses of money, and then explained why knowledge, motive and self denial are justly considered equal to the moral use of money...
...Tangarines" partakes of the characteristics of a fable and of a description. It lacks the moral of a fable; or at any rate the moral, in so far as implied, is one which could hardly be recommended for universal adoption...
...only solution of our problem is to be looked for, then, in what may be called an Ethical Optimism, where the existence of evil in the universe is held to bear the same relation to the goodness of the moral order, that, in the individual good man, his evil impulses bear to the moral will that conquers them. With such a moral optimism our study of Hegel has in some measure made us acquainted...
...still true that one great element of the evil in the world remains not only unexplained, but from our finite point of view inexplicable. Such evil as tends to make the world serious, and even tragic, may be justified by its very significance as a part of the stern, moral order, But the genuinely disheartening evils of the world are those blind absurdities and caprices of human fortune, which everywhere seem to make the world not spiritual but trivial, and life not a significant struggle for a great end, but a contemptible conflict with foes that have no worth...