Word: morals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recording the close of the long life of Francis Bowen, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Emeritus, the faculty of Harvard college desire also to record their sense of the large services rendered by him to the university and the country...
...North American Review for February has a varied and unusually attractive table of contents. Such extremes of moral outlook as Ouida's and Gail Hamilton's are here, although separated from each other by the chief bulk of the number. The Gladstone-Blaine controversy by Representative Mills, author of the Tariff Reduction bill is the leading article. It is in continuation of the Gladstone-Blaine duel in the January number, where those two advocates of opposing theories flourished their steels simultaneously and by mutual agreement. Mr. Mills tersely, and with sledge-hammer vigor, answers Mr. Blaine, arguing that protection leads...
President Charles K. Adams of Cornell contributes to the February Foruw a very thoughtful paper entitled "Moral Aspects of College Life." President Adams, who has been so long connected with the intimate workings of one of the greatest institutions of learning in the country, is well qualified to write intelligently on this subject which is forming a topic of interest, especially in these times, to the public at large...
...college life for good, and from evil? An intellectual education alone will not keep men from evil doing. The mere knowledge of iniquity will not be strong enough to keep a man from it. There are then, laying aside this purely intellectual consideration, two chief ways in which the moral strength of college life may be increased: first, by strengthening the impulses towards good; and second, by weakening the impulses towards evil. Under the first head Mr. Adams suggests four elements. Religion, the first named of these, has far more influence upon the average college man than people believe...
...Adams, of Cornell, has an article in the February Forum on "Moral Aspects of College Life," which will prove very interesting to college men. It is a study of the moral surroundings of the college student and the problems connected with his athletic sports and attendance on religious services, voluntary or required...