Word: morality
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Nervous Breakdown. Why was St. Gandhi in effect kidnaped by due process of law? The crushing mental and moral stresses set up by his movement had caused the nervous breakdown, earlier in the week, of Sir Horatio Norman Bolton, chief commissioner of the North West Frontier Prince. In a state of emotional collapse Sir Horatio sailed for England, beaten by weapons beyond his ken, as St. Gandhi hopes many another and finally all Englishmen will sail. Moreover, mutiny was in the air. After hiding the fact for days, His Majesty's Government was obliged to admit in an official...
...amply proved by the failure of any of the generals who have made the bid to establish a secure government during the decades just passed. So the progress of the Revolution has really been the story of a search for a code of political ideals that would win the moral support of the people...
Although the CRIMSON has no desire to engage in a lengthy, discussion of systematic moralities with "The Harvard Square Deal Association", it desires to clarify its statement that the Scrubwomen case is a moral issue. Harvard University was within its legal rights in its peremptory dismissal of its employees; morally the action and its later ramifications are indefensible. There is little doubt in the minds of the University at large that the wages of its employees, while legally sufficient, are certainly below any altruistic or even humanitarian scale. The issue in the mind of the CRIMSON is whether there...
...desire to thank the CRIMSON for reminding us that "any question of morality inevitably means a moral issue, not an absolute moral truth". But we feel that there is an inadvertent mistake in elementary philosophy in its editorial...
...clash of systematic moralities, a moral question is quite debatable,--what is 'good' to the Christian may well be 'evil' to the Neitschean. But when related to the standards of a specific moral code, a situation either conforms or it does not. Harvard has forever identified herself with a specific code, one which signifies enlightenedness, generous and fine sportsmanship, and pioneering in social progress...