Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...remarkably fine mathematician. He took mathematics as an elective in the Junior year, and occasionally displayed his power by arriving at the same result with Professor Peirce by methods of his own. He was equally good in astronomy and physics. He was a good student in moral and intellectual philosophy. His forensics and themes, too, were sometimes of unusual merit. He never was a bookworm, however. Indeed, we learn from the pages before us that he seldom had a book in his hands; for neither at this time nor ever was he addicted to books, or much devoted...
...there in Success any Indication of the Moral Worth of Conduct...
...used. But if principle is at stake we make but a poor bargain if we exchange it for smoothness of intercourse. Witness our College, where certainly the tact alluded to in Holworthy's case is plentiful enough; no doubt that intercourse here is sufficiently oily, but is not the moral tone, or rather the absence of moral tone, somewhat juvenile? Certainly it is not characteristic of men to disregard morals; disregard of them is peculiar only to sots or very young men. Only when we free ourselves from these boyish views, and when we attain the moral courage to speak...
Some one has aptly said that "the genuine gentleman must possess a good degree of moral freedom; but the gentleman robes manliness in courtesy...
...moral is obvious. Let there be some opportunity given to those who wish to meet an instructor for the purposes of reading at sight; let some instructor deliver a course of lectures in German, in language suited to our modest acquirements; in short, let the same opportunities be given to the man who wishes to study German as to the one who wishes to study French; and it will soon be seen that enough men will make use of the privilege to warrant its being granted...