Word: maudlin
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...more wholesome tone, and one that will do something toward stopping the evils themselves. To parade one's own vicious acts shows either a very childish or else a very debauched frame of mind. It is, then, the duty of those who would have the prevailing moral tone not maudlin but manly to express themselves in a gentlemanly but clear manner against the indecencies with which students are now so familiar. The present foolish tone of morals in some college circles is due, not, as some newspapers claim, to the non-religious character of the University, but largely...
...prevent the possible results of a controversy which seemed likely to degenerate into something like personal abuse, we have decided not to publish an answer to the article in the last Advocate, entitled "Maudlin Criticism." That article, even in its title, was so offensive that comments upon it have come to us from many sources, while lengthy - not to say heavy - refutations of its sentiments have been meditated by several persons. A feeling of compassion for the readers of the Crimson has also moved us in this matter. It has always been the desire of the editors of the paper...
...plea is made in favor of the ladies and gentlemen we invite to our Class-Day celebration. The voice of purism objects that the brutal spectacle of the rush around the tree, and the slobbering, and too often maudlin embraces of the Seniors are less likely to please our friends than to cause them to blush...
SCENE in last car to Cambridge. Crowd of maudlin Freshmen...
...literature. It clothes the good in forms of beauty, and enlists the aesthetic faculty on the side of the true. The newspaper is the doctor rather than the sculptor, and must sternly set itself to dissect, amputate, and prune away the evils of society, and cannot stop to weep maudlin tears over petty virtues, or to create third-rate literature. Let us not then seek to find in the Nation what does not belong there. But we cannot fail to find in its writings a vigor and robustness of thought, a loftiness of aim, that is bred of the highest...