Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...said the old man, drawing up a chair and cosily seating himself at Renardy's elbow, while he produced a pamphlet from his little black valise, - "eh? Well, you never saw anything so valuable as this. Here's George Washington, the Father of his Country; there's his moral nature, very large - veneration, conscientiousness, could n't tell a lie, you know, when his father...
...Archibald Alexander, a recent graduate of Princeton College, has lately been appointed by the Trustees of Columbia Adjunct Professor in the Department of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, to assist Professor Nairne. Mr. Alexander enters upon his duties fortified with two years of special study at Berlin and Vienna...
...which they could not master without help, and still more have been driven to the expensive alternative of tutoring. Thus the Freshmen, with the exception of the few mathematical minds among them, have been forced to go through an ordeal the only value of which has been the questionable moral training which suffering gives. The private tutors in Cambridge find pupils almost solely in the Freshman class, and very rarely in any subject but Mathematics. It is evident that no study should be required in College which a large number cannot master without other instruction than is afforded...
...recall a classmate of mine, whose story will point my moral. Buckeye was a native of Porkopolis, and belonged to one of the proudest of those old families who boast that they have been pork-packers since the century began. Now, Buckeye, with his wealth and connections, might have taken a first place in the social world at Neophogen, and afterwards in the great world. But the foolish fellow threw away his chances. To use rather a vulgar phrase, he never took account of stock; and, when he might have had the best, he was quite as likely, through sheer...
...Visiting Committee for 1875 - 76 have made their report. While they find the College generally in a satisfactory and improving condition, changes are suggested in almost all the departments. In the department of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, although "the young men are stimulated to think for themselves upon controverted points, and care is taken to acquaint them with the objections which must be met before satisfactory conclusions can be reached," the result often unsettles conviction and produces "a sceptical turn of mind which is the more hopeless because it thinks itself rational and scientific." In Philosophy 3, the Critique...