Word: moralizing
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...Record has assumed a highly moral tone in some remarks upon ticket speculations. There has been at New Haven an entertainment of some sort, called a Junior Promenade. To this entertainment etiquette forbids Freshmen to go; but, at the same time, respect for upper-class men, and possibly a little intimidation, induce them to buy tickets in large quantities. These tickets are to them like the traditional elephant, and they are only too glad to dispose of them at half price to economical Seniors. Of this proceeding the Record disapproves. It does not object to the selling of tickets...
There appears to be trouble of a more serious nature at Vassar. The Mis. declares that there is a "screw loose" in the "moral sentiments" of the collegians, in consequence of which young ladies habitually abstract newspapers containing "scientific articles" from the reading-room...
...CORRESPONDENT of the University Magazine, confused by the moral eccentricities of college students, suggests, as morality appears to be dependent on custom, that a convention of delegates be held at Philadelphia, "who shall be empowered to ratify and confirm, for their respective institutions, such code of morals as shall be agreed upon by the Convention...
...apostles of modern progress assert, indeed, that all individual force and manliness have not died out with the decline of some of the old observances which tended to foster these qualities. Civilization, it is said, has changed the form but not the essence of heroism. The moral of the omission of the exercises at the tree, it is claimed, would not be that the free, rollicking, glorious creature we know as the Harvard student has become a cynic, mounted on the hobby horse of "indifference," or a prig prating of "the true, the beautiful, and the good," both too superior...
Most men appear to think that when they have purchased a print or two, the moral character of which is regulated by the reputation which they desire to maintain; when they have been elected to the St. Paul's, the Chess Club, the Institute, or the Athenaeum, etc., ad infinitum, and have encircled their shingles with gray passe-partouts; when they have carelessly slung any medals that they may possess over the shingles aforesaid, and when they have put photographs of a popular actress or two - probably Rosina Vokes, and some loose character in tights - on their mantelpieces, they have...