Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...League. Mr. Cook began by comparing the prohibition question to the old slavery issue, and said he hoped that his hearers would live to seethe liquor traffic declared an outlaw thoughout the civilized world. The temperance movement takes root easily in the Anglo-Saxon nature. For the love of moral purity inherent in it awakens a great sensibility to moral questions, and we should do our share to further the cause. The lecturer then discussed the educational and political aspect of the prohibition movement. Life insurance companies take cognizance of a man's habits in drink. The total abstainer obtains...
...ground, especially for the advantage of base-ball, a game for which a small closet gives amply sufficient practice room. If by any chance some of your unused alleys should be put to any other use be certain that the college, as a whole, will lend you as much moral and financial aid as the Cambridge car strikers have received from their firm allies, the striking car-men of South Boston...
...Fletcher's paper on "Poe, Hawthorne and Morality." is interesting, and his stand is well taken - that Hawthorne is the truly moral writer of the two - but as a whole the paper is uneven in strength...
...first at the finish. It is well, but we submit that the other gentlemen, professors and tutors, who have also done their best by the institution ought not to be discriminated against. Can any good reason be assigned why - for instance - the worthy occupant of Yale's chair of Moral Philosophy should not be invited by appreciative alumni to take something? True, it may be said that moral philosophy is a no-account study, while boating is an indispensable of the higher education. But to grant that this is so is not to admit that the professor of moral philosopy...
...what is true of the professor of moral philosopy is doubtless true also of the professors of languages, mathematics, polite literature, chemistry and other subordinate subjects - subordinate to boating. They are far too sensible, far too proficient in the science of relative values, to expect a dinner given by the students in their honor to compare with this boating dinner. Expressed in a scholarly form, their conviction in the premises would be that boating is to all other studies as 14 is to 7. As for the Yale tutors, the chances are that those level-headed devotees of knowledge...