Word: virtuouse
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...Round Table publishes a long article against dancing. The writer thinks that the introduction of this profane amusement into the mixed college society of the West would tend to change "sober, intelligent, earnest, religious young men" into "fast, wild, and irreligious" characters; and to make of "virtuous, modest, Christian young women," "young women either insipid and fond of frittering away their time reading love-stories and dreaming about young men, or else bold, unchaste, and immodest." The terpsichorean efforts of this author have probably not been attended with success...
...view, we confess, American college life seems a hot-house, producing, not gentlemen, but artistes. The majority of men coming to college from elsewhere than the social world of the great cities are pure bourgeois. They have the big virtues and the little, - regard for the truth and virtuous recoil from ponying. They have read nothing but the Requirements for Admission and high-toned books, and scorn all literature but such as "fits them for the work of life." Cards are not only a waste of time, but evil in themselves; and the theatre an abomination...
...Vandals are among us. Yesterday morning the virtuous prayer-goer was shocked at the sight of sundry inscriptions about the entrance of the Chapel, and, it is believed, the matutinal meditations of many were disturbed by the circumstance. We tender the authors of this brilliant joke our congratulations on their glorious achievement. We should like to be introduced to them...
Fallen, indeed, is this the beau-ideal of a virtuous and simple-minded "dig," the pride of the Faculty...