Word: morbidness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is no escaping the fact that our failure in intercollegiate athletics is largely due to a morbid and unhealthy cynicism prevailing here-a cynicism that represses individuality. self-assertion, and even enthusiasm. No one admires more than myself the quality of "self-conceitedness"- if I may use the term-that is fostered here. But I protest against the extreme to which the culture of the conventional and the worship of the proper is carried in this University. It is true the Harvard man of to-day has admirable tact, a useful amount of self-possession, and a praiseworthy respect...
...football season is at hand. Will a regenerated opinion show that Harvard can win as well as lose; or will the old lackadaisical spirit-occasioned, we believe, by a morbid fear of criticism-influence those who ought to offer their services and prevent them from making themselves known? If the new students of this year will be brave enough to care nothing for the feelings which certain badly bred but omnipresent persons are rude enough to show, then we may never hear again that remark which has become now extremely trite, "Oh! They don't know how to play foot...
...last "Advocate" under the heading, "Talks with the Ancients", is an exception here, and should not be so, for it affords no opportunity of hiding flaws and exercises healthily the powers of insight and imagination; whereas descriptions of moonlight and murders, such as our immaturity writes them, are morbid in all their tendencies. We cannot, of course, all be Thackerays, and "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all," with the Muses as with less ethereal petticoats. But a vapid dalliance with literature is demoralizing in the last degree...
...rowdyism which every now and then break out at Princeton and other exclusively masculine colleges, the presence of girl students would do more than the police. It is safe to say that under the separate system the young men and women will think more about each other in a morbid way and there will be more attempts at clandestine correspondence and flirtation, than if they met each other every day naturally and simply in the class-room under the eye of the professors, and without the attraction of forbidden fruit...
When the chapel petition was first circulated, it was opposed on the ground that it betrayed a morbid sense of discontent on the part of men who were too young to know what they wanted; and a painful lack of religion in men who did know. It was claimed by many that the chapel petition was started by men who were insincere in purpose, and that making chapel voluntary would be equivalent to destroying the chapel service altogether. Even men like Dr. Brooks and Dr. McKenzie hesitated a long while before taking the step which was sure to come some...