Word: suasion
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...pets. This is a problem that has for years distressed the Indian Bureau of the Department of the Interior. Grave cases have been reported to the Bureau of individuals who possess half a dozen dogs and hold on to them with a tenacity that no amount of moral, suasion can shake. Now it is announced that the braves of Fort Berthold Agency have decided to get along with two dogs per Indian, and to put, as well, a dollar tax on every dog within the legal quota...
...ethics of "Stalky and Co," and its "moral suasion" has been much discussed. Even now, with so startling an effect of the fag system set before them, the English papers are still battling over the question. The opponents of the custom have good support in the news of this suicide; their antagonists lay stress on the "over-sensitiveness" of the boy in the case, an uphold hazing as being generally wholesome and corrective. Both sides, incidentally, agree that hazing is not nearly so prevalent as it was fifty or a hundred years...
...True reform will never be effected by law and force, but only by education healthy public sentiment, and moral suasion. We can no more establish by law ideal relations between capital and labor than between husband and wife or between parent and child. All we can do by law is to keep the peace, protect private property, personal liberty and freedom of contract; and punish pal- pable breaches of obligations which freemen have 'voluntarily assumed...
...boarding house keepers are obliged to take out a license from the city for so being, it is presumed that the faculty exerted their power through having the right to say in what places students shall lodge, or what is equivalent, shall not lodge. In this way great moral suasion can be used, and as was the case Monday night, with a good effect. Many a freshman has reason to thank the faculty for their sudden, though genuine interest in his welfare...
...fact that freshmen have been led to keep open house by some agencies more potent than their own inclinations or the exercise of mere "moral suasion" on the part of their elders, we would remark that the days have departed when fear of any summary, vengence from the awful sophomores should have influence on the doings of any freshman...