Word: morals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...December number of the New England Magazine contains an article by William Reed Bigelow on "Harvard's Better Self." It consists of a survey of the moral advantages which Harvard students enjoy and the use they make of them. The author discusses at length the worship which centers in Appleton Chapel: The morning prayers, the Sunday evening services, Vespers, the conference with the members of the Board of Preachers, etc. With the aid of quotations from articles by Professor Peabody and Rev. D. N. Beach as well as from statistics, the writer establishes the fact, well known...
...spoke before his students on the subject of college government. If his remarks were correctly reported, it is clear that the methods of governing at his institution are not as far advanced as here. He sets forth the proposition that "the best ideal for the college is in the moral sense of the individual student," a principle which was discovered here long ago and which has been the basis of our government longer than any of the present undergraduates can remember. The report also says that the conscientious demands of the student body ought to be recognized, and that...
...beautiful works of art, and their citizens famous in oratory and literature, but these were the defenceless cities, open on all sides to the attacks of enemies. It is just the same with human souls; those alone are secure from temptations which are well enclosed in a wall of moral courage and right. A man has no right to enter college, no right to enter the world unless he has this defense about him. Many men who are without it may be wits or philosophers or great writers, but they are sure to be morally weak...
...considering the value of the historic I view of the Old Testament, it destroys the belief that God his spoken to the world once and speaks no more. It removes many moral and scientific difficulties.- such as are to be found in reading of the calling of children to be slathered and inconsistencies about the creation. It shows us that the writers were as we are-perhaps more devoted to their principles, but moved by the same passions. It frees the religious soul from bear, because it shows that safety and happiness lie in the present performance of duty...
...athletic victory. It means that Harvard has stuck to the work of beating Yale all these years with a grim determination, that in the face of defeat after defeat Harvard has always started in again with renewed energy, and finally has been successful. There is every reason, including a moral reason, why Harvard should be jubilant now that Yale is beaten...